Kanji

餌

Meaning

food bait prey

Readings

Kun'yomi

  • え じき prey (i.e. of a predator)
  • え づく to begin to eat or feed
  • え づけ artificial feeding (of wild animals)
  • えば
  • えさ (animal) feed
  • えさ ばこ (animal) feed tray
  • えさ ば feeding ground
  • もち

On'yomi

  • こう じ bait
  • やく じ medicine
  • しょく じ food (esp. for a medical diet)
  • に

Practice Writing

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Component Analysis

餌
food, bait, prey...
え, えば, ジ
飠
( 食 ) eat, food, radical number 184
亽
𠆢
( 人 )
丶
dot, tick or dot radical (no. 3)
チュ
卽
( CDP-8B7C ) promptly, namely
つ.く, すなわ.ち, ソク
耳
ear
みみ, ジ

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