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饵

ěr

bait

Phonosemantic compound. 饣 represents the meaning and 耳 represents the sound. Simplified form of 餌.

Components
饣 meaning component

饣  Meaning component

shí

  

eat

饣 is a component form of 食.

耳 sound component

耳  Sound component

ěr

  

ear

Evolution

饵 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

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

Clerical script

Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)
饵 Traditional script Modern

Traditional script

Modern
饵 Simplified script Modern

Simplified script

Modern
Definitions

饵 (餌) 

ěr

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

Most common words with 饵
Freq.
Word
Meaning

诱饵

bait

饵

pastry

鱼饵

fish bait

饵子

fish 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

9

Traditional

餌

Unicode

U+9975


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