饴 — Chinese character
饴
yí
syrup; sweet-meat, sweet-cake
- Pinyin
- yí
- Radical
- 184 ⾷ (Eat)
- Strokes
- 8
- Components
- 饣 台
- Formation
- pictophonetic — food; meaning component 饣; sound component 台
- Traditional
- 飴
Common words with 饴
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 甘之如饴 (甘之如飴) | gān zhī rú yí | lit. as sweet as syrup (idiom, from Book of Songs); to endure hardship gladly; a glutton for punishment |
| 饴糖 (飴糖) | yí táng | malt sugar; maltose |
| 含饴弄孙 (含飴弄孫) | hán yí nòng sūn | lit. to play with one's grandchildren while eating candy (idiom); fig. to enjoy a happy and leisurely old age |
| 糖饴 (糖飴) | táng yí | malt sugar; maltose |
Data: Make Me a Hanzi (Arphic Public License (graphics.txt); LGPL-3.0-or-later (dictionary.txt)); Unihan Database (Unicode License v3); CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0). Retrieved 2026-10-22.