餌

餌

See also: 饵

餌 U+990C, 餌 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-990C ← 餋 [U+990B] CJK Unified Ideographs 餍 → [U+990D]

Translingual

Han character

餌 (Kangxi radical 184, 食+6, 15 strokes, cangjie input 人戈尸十 (OISJ), four-corner 8174₀, composition ⿰飠耳)

References

• KangXi: page 1419, character 30
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 44146
• Dae Jaweon: page 1944, character 2
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 7, page 4449, character 13
• Unihan data for U+990C

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Chinese

trad.		餌
simp.		饵
alternative forms		𩱓 㢽 𧊗 bait 𩚪 𩛣

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

Phono-semantic compound (形聲, OC *njɯs) : semantic 食 (“to eat”) + phonetic 耳 (OC *njɯʔ).

Etymology

An area word. Compare Khmer នុយ (nuy, “bait; lure (especially for catching fish)”), Thai เหยื่อ (yʉ̀ʉa, “bait”) (Schuelsser, 2007).

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): ěr (er³)

  (Zhuyin): ㄦˇ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): nei⁶
• Hakka (Sixian, PFS): ngí
• Min Dong (BUC): né
• Min Nan

  (Hokkien, POJ): lī / jī / ní / jíⁿ

  (Teochew, Peng'im): ri⁷ / re²

• Wu (Wiktionary): hher (T3)

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: ěr
    • Zhuyin: ㄦˇ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: ěr
    • Wade–Giles: êrh³
    • Yale: ěr
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: eel
    • Palladius: эр (er)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /ˀɤɻ²¹⁴/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)⁺
    • Jyutping: nei⁶
    • Yale: neih
    • Cantonese Pinyin: nei⁶
    • Guangdong Romanization: néi⁶
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /nei̯²²/
• Hakka
  • (Sixian, incl. Miaoli and Meinong)
    • Pha̍k-fa-sṳ: ngí
    • Hakka Romanization System: ngi`
    • Hagfa Pinyim: ngi³
    • Sinological IPA: /ɲi³¹/
• Min Dong
  • (Fuzhou)
    • Bàng-uâ-cê: né
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /nˡɛi²¹³/
• Min Nan
  • (Hokkien: Xiamen, Quanzhou, Taipei)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: lī
    • Tâi-lô: lī
    • Phofsit Daibuun: li
    • IPA (Taipei): /li³³/
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /li⁴¹/
    • IPA (Xiamen): /li²²/
  • (Hokkien: Zhangzhou, Kaohsiung)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: jī
    • Tâi-lô: jī
    • Phofsit Daibuun: ji
    • IPA (Kaohsiung): /ʑi³³/
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /d͡ʑi²²/
  • (Hokkien: Xiamen, Quanzhou)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: ní
    • Tâi-lô: ní
    • Phofsit Daibuun: nie
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /nĩ⁵⁵⁴/
    • IPA (Xiamen): /nĩ⁵³/
  • (Hokkien: Zhangzhou)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: jíⁿ
    • Tâi-lô: jínn
    • Phofsit Daibuun: jvie
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /d͡ʑĩ⁵³/

Note:

• lī/jī - vernacular;
• ní/jíⁿ - literary.

• • (Teochew)
    • Peng'im: ri⁷ / re²
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī-like: jī / jṳ́
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /d͡zi¹¹/, /d͡zɯ⁵²/
• Wu
  • (Shanghainese)
    • Wiktionary: hher (T3)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /ɦəɻ²³/

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• Middle Chinese: /ȵɨ^H/

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
Expected Cantonese Reflex	ji6

• Old Chinese

  (Baxter–Sagart): /*[C.]nə(ʔ)-s/

  (Zhengzhang): /*njɯs/

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

1. food made of rice dough
2. food
3. medicine
4. to eat
5. to feed
6. bait (either for fish or for other animals)
7. to lure

Compounds

以狸餌鼠／以狸饵鼠 抑威餌敵／抑威饵敌 服餌／服饵 果餌／果饵 毒餌／毒饵 (dú'ěr) 祿餌／禄饵 芳餌／芳饵

藥餌／药饵 (yào'ěr) 虜餌／虏饵 誘餌／诱饵 (yòu'ěr) 針餌莫減／针饵莫减 釣餌／钓饵 (diào'ěr) 餅餌／饼饵 (bǐng'ěr) 餌名釣祿／饵名钓禄

餌料生物／饵料生物 餌藥／饵药 餌誘／饵诱 (ěryòu) 餌釣／饵钓 香餌／香饵 魚餌／鱼饵 (yú'ěr)

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Japanese

Kanji

餌

(common “Jōyō” kanji)

Readings

• Go-on: に (ni)
• Kan-on: じ (ji, Jōyō)
• Kun: えさ (esa, 餌, Jōyō)^{←ゑさ (wesa, historical)}; え (e, 餌, Jōyō)^{←ゑ (we, historical)}; もち (mochi)

Compounds

Compounds

• 好餌(こうじ) (kōji)
• 給餌(きゅうじ) (kyūji)
• 擬餌(ぎじ) (giji)
• 索餌(さくじ) (sakuji)
• 食餌(しょくじ) (shokuji)
• 薬餌(やくじ) (yakuji)

Etymology 1

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

Pronunciation

• Kun’yomi
• (Tokyo) えさ​ [èsáꜜ] (Odaka – [2])[1]
• (Tokyo) えさ [èsá] (Heiban – [0])[1]
• IPA^(key): [e̞sa̠]

Noun

餌(えさ) • (esa) ^{←ゑさ (wesa)?}

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

Derived terms

• 餌場(えさば) (esaba, “feeding grounds”)
• 餌箱(えさばこ) (esabako, “the feed tray of an animal, a feed trough, a feed box; a bait box”)

Etymology 2

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

Pronunciation

• Kun’yomi
• (Tokyo) え​ [éꜜ] (Atamadaka – [1])[1]
• IPA^(key): [e̞]

Noun

餌(え) • (e) ^{←ゑ (we)?}

1. animal food, feed
2. bait

Derived terms

Derived terms

• 餌食(えじき) (ejiki)
• 餌壷(えつぼ) (etsubo)
• 餌付(えづ)く (ezuku)
• 餌袋(えぶくろ) (ebukuro)
• 擂(す)り餌(え) (surie)

References

1. 2006, 大辞林 (Daijirin), Third Edition (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Sanseidō, →ISBN

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Korean

Hanja

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

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Vietnamese

Han character

餌: Hán Nôm readings: nhị, nhĩ

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