餌

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See also: 饵
餌 U+990C, 餌
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-990C
← 餋
 		CJK Unified Ideographs 餍 →

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 Dictionary: 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

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 / 形声, 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

Note:
  • ni4 - vernacular;
  • zi3 - literary.
Note:
  • lī/jī - vernacular;
  • ní/jíⁿ - literary.
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
Baxter nyiH
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang 		/ȵɨH/
Pan
Wuyun 		/ȵɨH/
Shao
Rongfen 		/ȵʑieH/
Edwin
Pulleyblank 		/ȵɨH/
Li
Rong 		/ȵiəH/
Wang
Li 		/ȵʑĭəH/
Bernhard
Karlgren 		/ȵʑiH/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex 		èr
Expected
Cantonese
Reflex 		ji6
Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 餌
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin) 		ěr
Middle
Chinese 		‹ nyiH ›
Old
Chinese 		/*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. * 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

References

  • 莆田市荔城区档案馆 , editor (2022), “饵”, in 莆仙方言文读字汇 [Puxian Dialect Literary Reading Dictionary] (overall work in Mandarin and Puxian Min), page 61.

Japanese

Kanji

餌

(Jōyō kanji)

Readings

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

Compounds

Compounds
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Etymology 1

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

Pronunciation

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.
    トンビにエサをあたえないでください。
    Tonbi ni esa o ataenaide kudasai.
    Please do not feed the black kites.
    (literally, “Please do not give food to the black kites.”)
  2. bait
Derived terms
Derived terms

Etymology 2

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

Pronunciation

Noun

餌(え) • (e) ←ゑ (we)?

  1. animal food, feed
  2. bait
Derived terms
Derived terms

References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 Matsumura, Akira, editor (2006), 大辞林 [Daijirin] (in Japanese), Third edition, Tokyo: Sanseidō, →ISBN

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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