rice jelly, candy
飴 centers on sweet, sticky treats made from grains: rice jelly and candy. Both meanings share the idea of a soft, sweet confection.
飴 combines 飠 (food/eat) with 台, which likely contributes the sound. The character originally referred to a sweet syrup or jelly made from grains.
The food radical 飠 on the left suggests something edible, and 台 on the right looks like a platform. Imagine a platform piled with sticky rice jelly and colorful candy.
For イ, picture a sweet candy that looks like the letter E: E -> イ, and you eat the E-shaped candy.
(hard) candy; toffee
mizuame; glucose syrup; starch syrup; corn syrup
Kintarō candy; Kintarō-ame; hard stick-shaped candy made so that the face of folk hero Kintarō appears when it is sliced
amber; yellowish-brown
candy-coated fruit (usu. a plum) on a stick
candy-coated strawberry on a stick
sweet rice jelly; (whitish) rice candy
twisted candy stick
throat lozenge; cough drop
candy-coated grapes on a stick
hard candy; candy suckers molded on a griddle; tortoise-shell candy
Botan Rice Candy (lemon-orange flavored soft, chewy candy with an edible wrapper); Botan Ame; Bontan Ame
candied apple; toffee apple
butter candy (Hokkaido specialty)
chilled syrup; soft drink of malt syrup mixed with boiling water, ginger juice, grated ginger, sometimes sprinkled with cinnamon (used as a refreshing summer drink, similar to ginger ale)
red and white candy stick sold at children's festivals
salty candy; salty caramel
white rice jelly
candy stick; stick candy; candy on a stick (e.g. lollipop); cylindrical candy
gyūhi-ame; soft Japanese confectionery made with rice flour, somewhat similar to Turkish delight