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

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

trad.		餌
simp.		饵
alternative forms		𩱓㢽𧊗 bait 𩚪𩛣

	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).

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

Mandarin
(Pinyin): ěr (er³)

(Zhuyin): ㄦˇ
Cantonese (Jyutping): nei⁶
Hakka (Sixian, PFS): ngí
Eastern Min (BUC): né
Southern Min
(Hokkien, POJ): lī / jī / ní / jíⁿ

(Teochew, Peng'im): ri⁷ / re²
Wu (Shanghai, Wugniu): ⁶gher

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–Hong Kong)
  - 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^ˋ
  - Hagfa Pinyim: ngi³
  - Sinological IPA: /ŋi³¹/
Eastern Min
- (Fuzhou)
  - Bàng-uâ-cê: né
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /nˡɛi²¹³/
Southern Min
- (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): /zi³³/
  - IPA (Zhangzhou): /d͡zi²²/
- (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): /d͡zĩ⁵³/

Note:

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

(Teochew)
- Peng'im: ri⁷ / re²
- Pe̍h-ōe-jī-like: jī / jṳ́
- Sinological IPA ^(key): /d͡zi¹¹/, /d͡zɯ⁵²/

Wu
- (Northern: Shanghai)
  - Wugniu: ⁶gher
  - MiniDict: r^去
  - Wiktionary Romanisation (Shanghai): ³hher
  - Sinological IPA (Shanghai): /ɦəl²³/

Middle Chinese: nyiH

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	‹ nyi^H ›
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/

餌

food made of rice dough
food
medicine
to eat
to feed
bait (either for fish or for other animals)
to lure

餌

(Jōyō kanji)

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

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

(Tokyo) えさ [èsáꜜ] (Odaka – [2])^[1]
(Tokyo) えさ [èsá] (Heiban – [0])^[1]
IPA^(key): [e̞sa̠]

餌(えさ) • (esa) ^{←ゑさ (wesa)^?}

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.”)
bait

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”)

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

(Tokyo) え [éꜜ] (Atamadaka – [1])^[1]
IPA^(key): [e̞]

餌(え) • (e) ^{←ゑ (we)^?}

animal food, feed
bait

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

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

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餌: Hán Nôm readings: nhị, nhĩ

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