餌

See also: 饵

Translingual

Han character

餌 (radical 184 食+6, 15 strokes, cangjie input 人戈尸十 (OISJ), four-corner 8174₀, composition ⿰飠耳)

1. bait
2. to bait, entice
3. dumplings

References

• KangXi: page 1419, character 30
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 44146
• Dae Jaweon: page 1944, character 2
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 7, page 4449, character 13
• Unihan data for U+990C

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Cantonese

Hanzi

餌 (simplified 饵, Jyutping nei6, Yale nei6)

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Japanese

Kanji

餌

(common “Jōyō” kanji)

Readings

• Goon: に (ni)
• Kan’on: じ (ji)
• Kun: もち (mochi), え (e), えさ (esa), ゑ (we, outdated)

Noun

餌 (hiragana えさ, romaji esa)

1. animal food; feed

   犬 (いぬ)に毎日 (まいにち)餌 (えさ)を上 (あ)げて下 (くだ)さい。

   inu ni mainichi esa o agete kudasai.

   Please feed the dog every day.

2. bait

Derived terms

• 餌場 (えさば) (esaba, “feeding grounds”)
• 餌箱 (えさばこ) (esabako, “the feed tray of an animal, a feed trough, a feed box; a bait box”)

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Korean

Hanja

餌 (i) (hangeul 이, revised i, McCune-Reischauer i, Yale i)

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Mandarin

Hanzi

餌 (simplified 饵, Pinyin ěr (er3), Wade-Giles erh³)

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Vietnamese

Han character

餌 (nhị, nhĩ)

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