Stroke order
This stroke order diagram is drawn with 15 strokes; it can differ from the count above because the sources use slightly different glyph shapes.
Stroke order data from KanjiVG (CC BY-SA 3.0).
Meaning (Japanese)
- 米粉で作った団子
- 餅や団子。
- 食べ物。
- えさ。
- 人や動物を誘い出すもの。
Character meanings and origins come from the Japanese Wiktionary.
Origin of the character
形声。「食」+音符「耳」。「食べ物」「えさ」を意味する漢語｛餌｝を表す字。
Character meanings and origins come from the Japanese Wiktionary.
Meaning
food, bait, prey, tempting profit
English glosses from KANJIDIC2.
Readings
- On (Sino-Japanese)
- ジHS
- ニ
- Kun (native)
- えJHS
- えば
- えさJHS
- もち
- Other languages
- 拼音er3
- 한글i
- Hán-ViệtNhị
Labels show the school stage at which each Jōyō reading is taught.
Basics
- Strokes
- 14 strokes
- Radical
- 食(しょく)
- JIS level
- Level 1
- Unicode
U+990C
Components
Components this kanji is made of. Follow them to find similar kanji.
Composition (IDS): left–right ⿰飠耳
Words using this kanji
- 餌えさ(animal) feed, fodder, pet food, bait
- 餌食えじきえさとして生きたまま肉食動物に食べられる動物。 他者の犠牲にされるもの。くいもの。prey (i.e. of a predator), kill, victim (of a crime, a hoax, etc.)
- 餌袋えぶくろgizzard, crop
- 餌箱えさばこ(animal) feed tray, feed trough, feed box, feed bowl
- 餌場えさばfeeding ground
- 餌木えぎwooden lure used for squid fishing
- 餌付くえづくto begin to eat or feed
- 餌付けえづけartificial feeding (of wild animals), accustoming (a wild animal) to accepting food from humans, hand-feeding, to win someone over (with food)
- 餌やりえさやりfeeding (animals), provisioning
- 餌入れえさいれ(animal) feed tray, feed trough, feed box, feed bowl
- 餌木ングエギングsquid fishing technique using lures
Words starting with this kanji, most common first.
Similar-looking kanji
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Lookup codes
- SKIP
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8172.0- Spahn–Hadamitzky
8b6.2- Heisig
- 1588
- Nelson
- 5167