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饧 (táng or xíng) and its traditional form 餳 are phono-semantic compounds that historically denoted malt sugar, molasses, or various thick syrups. The semantic component is the 'food' radical 饣 (shí) in simplified form or 食 in traditional, marking it as something edible, while the phonetic is 易 (yì) in the simplified character and 昜 (yáng) in the traditional. In ancient cuisine, it referred specifically to a sweetener made from sprouted grains, but it now appears only rarely, mostly in historical texts about diet and confectionery.
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