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餌

ěr

bait

Phonosemantic compound. 飠 represents the meaning and 耳 represents the sound.

Components
飠 meaning component

飠  Meaning component

shí

  

eat

飠 is a component form of 食.

耳 sound component

耳  Sound component

ěr

  

ear

Evolution

餌 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
餌 Clerical script Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)

Clerical script

Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)
餌 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

饵 (餌) 

ěr

bait; bait, entice; dumplings; pastry; food; to swallow; to lure; lure

Most common words with 餌
Freq.
Word
Meaning

诱饵

bait

饵

pastry

鱼饵

fish bait

饵子

fish bait

Historical pronunciation

Old Chinese

Middle Chinese

Pinyin

Gloss

*[C.]nə(ʔ)-s

nyiH

ěr

bait


Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

Appears in 4.3889% of movies

2524th most common character in movies

3135th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

14

Simplified

饵

Unicode

U+990C

Shuowen

“，粉餅也。从，耳聲。餌，或从食，耳聲。”


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