飴 – rice jelly, candy

13 strokesN5 vocabulary

The kanji 飴 means rice jelly, candy. Its on’yomi (Chinese-derived reading) is イ、シ (i, shi); its kun’yomi (native Japanese reading) is あめ、やしな.う (ame, yashinau). It is written with 13 strokes, under radical 食 (no. 184).

Stroke order

Stroke order from KanjiVG. Practise others with the stroke order lookup.

Readings

Type	Reading	Romaji
On’yomi	イ	i
On’yomi	シ	shi
Kun’yomi	あめ	ame
Kun’yomi	やしな.う	yashinau

A dot separates the kanji’s part from the okurigana (kana written after it), e.g. まな.ぶ → 学ぶ.

Radical and components

Radical: 食 (Kangxi radical 184). Components: 口・食・厶.

Words using 飴

飴あめ(hard) candy

Example sentences

息子は箱から飴を一つ取った。

My son took a candy from the box.

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Kanji with the same radical

食館養飲飯飾飼飢飽餅餌饉

Sources: KANJIDIC2 (EDRDG, CC BY-SA 4.0), KanjiVG (CC BY-SA 3.0), Tatoeba (CC BY 2.0 FR). About the data.