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飴 kanji
rice jelly, candy
- JLPT level
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- N5 vocabulary
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イシ
Kun readings
あめやしなう
Words with 飴
LevelWord & meaningActions
- N5飴Popular(hard) candy; toffee; rice-sugar; sugar made from the starch of rice, potatoes, etc.; amber; yellowish-brown
- —飴玉candy
- —綿飴cotton candy; fairy floss; candy floss
- —飴色amber; yellowish-brown
- —飴煮food boiled in sugared broth
- —水飴mizuame; glucose syrup; starch syrup; corn syrup
- —飴粕residue left after making starch syrup
- —飴湯thick malt syrup poured into boiling water and sprinkled with cinnamon (used as a refreshing summer drink)
- —飴屋candy shop; candy maker
- —棒飴candy stick; stick candy; candy on a stick (e.g. lollipop); cylindrical candy
- —粉飴powdered mizuame; corn syrup solids; powdered corn syrup
- —塩飴salty candy; salty caramel
- —飴細工candy fashioned in human and animal forms; deceptive appearance; all show; empty suit; paper tiger
- —飴ん棒stick of candy
- —千歳飴red and white candy stick sold at children's festivals
- —飴と鞭carrot and stick; candy and whip
- —のど飴throat lozenge; cough drop
- —飴売りcandy vendor (esp. an Edo-period candy vendor who sold candy while walking around playing the flute or another musical instrument); candy vender
- —太白飴white rice jelly
- —さらし飴sweet rice jelly; (whitish) rice candy