漢字Kanji · in Action & Movement
餌: food, bait
Also: prey, tempting profit
N1 (our estimate)14 strokesSecondary schoolYour ink: 白 Not met
⻞ carries the meaning · 耳 is drawn in
15 strokes
Small seal · Qin Today
Small seal: Wikimedia Commons, public domain. Today’s form: KanjiVG, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Three readings, and the words that use each
ジji · on'yomi · in compounds
- 好餌こうじbait; decoy; lure
えe · kun'yomi · on its own
- 餌食えじきprey (i.e. of a predator); kill
えさesa · kun'yomi
- 餌えさ(animal) feed; fodder; pet food
Also read ニ, えば, もち, with no example words in our sources. Words: JMdict, EDRDG, CC BY-SA 4.0.
成り立ち
Where it comes from
Memory story · made up to help you remember
“A feast under the lid! Imagine lifting the cover of a steaming pot to find a meal prepared with care.”
繋がり
Connections
Ink shades, lightest to darkest: 白 Not met, 淡 Met, 中 Learning, 濃 Familiar, 印 Mastered
Also read ニ
7 kanji share this on'yomiEasy to confuse
The difference, side by side餌 food · 耳
vs餅 mochi rice cake · 并In ChineseSimplified 饵 · traditional, as in Japanese · ěr
Japan keeps the traditional form 餌; mainland China simplifies it to 饵.
- Simplified
- 饵 mainland China, Singapore
- Traditional
- 餌 Taiwan, Hong Kong
Pinyin ěr most common reading
Forms and pinyin: Unicode Unihan database (Unicode License v3). Pinyin lists the most common reading, not every reading.
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