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餌

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

Chinese

trad. 餌
simp. 饵

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series (耳) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
佴 *nɯːs, *njɯs
麛 *miː
弭 *mniʔ
渳 *mniʔ
葞 *mniʔ
髶 *njis, *njoŋ
聻 *nɯʔ
恥 *n̥ʰɯʔ
咡 *njɯ, *njɯs
誀 *njɯ, *njɯs
耳 *njɯʔ
洱 *njɯʔ, *njɯs
駬 *njɯʔ
餌 *njɯs
珥 *njɯs
衈 *njɯs
毦 *njɯs
刵 *njɯs
眲 *njɯs, *rnɯːɡ

Pronunciation

Rime
Character 餌
Reading # 1/1
Initial (聲) 日 (38)
Final (韻) 之 (19)
Tone (調) Departing (H)
Openness (開合) Open
Division (等) III
Fanqie 仍吏切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang		 /ȵɨH/
Pan
Wuyun		 /ȵɨH/
Shao
Rongfen		 /ȵʑieH/
Edwin
Pulleyblank		 /ȵɨH/
Li
Rong		 /ȵiəH/
Wang
Li		 /ȵʑĭəH/
Bernard
Karlgren		 /ȵʑiH/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex		 èr
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 餌
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)		 ěr
Middle
Chinese		 ‹ nyiH ›
Old
Chinese		 /*[C.]nə(ʔ)-s/
English bait

Notes for Old Chinese notations in the Baxter-Sagart system:

* Parentheses "()" indicate uncertain presence;
* Square brackets "[]" indicate uncertain identity, e.g. *[t] as coda may in fact be *-t or *-p;
* Angle brackets "<>" indicate infix;
* Hyphen "-" indicates morpheme boundary;

* Period "." indicates syllable boundary.
Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character 餌
Reading # 1/1
No. 2786
Phonetic
component		 耳
Rime
group		 之
Rime
subdivision		 0
Corresponding
MC rime		 餌
Old
Chinese		 /*njɯs/

Definitions

餌

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Japanese

Kanji

餌

(common “Jōyō” kanji)

Readings

Compounds

Etymology 1

Kanji in this term
餌
えさ
Grade: S
kun'yomi

Pronunciation

Noun

餌 ‎(hiragana えさ, romaji esa, historical hiragana ゑさ)

  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

Etymology 2

Kanji in this term
餌
え
Grade: S
kun'yomi

Pronunciation

Noun

餌 ‎(hiragana え, romaji e, historical hiragana ゑ)

  1. animal food, feed
  2. bait
Derived terms

References

  1. 1 2 3 2006, 大辞林 (Daijirin), Third Edition (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Sanseidō, ISBN 4-385-13905-9

Korean

Hanja

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

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Vietnamese

Han character

餌 (nhị, nhĩ)

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