The kanji 餌: meaning, readings and stroke order
餌
- Meaning
- feed, bait
- On reading
- ジ ji
- Kun reading
- え e、えさ esa
- Strokes
- 15
- Radical
- 食 eat, food
- Level
- Level 10 · the last years of senior high
Stroke order
Meaning in other languages
- Vietnamese
- mồi, thức ăn cho thú (nhị)
- Japanese
- えさ。どうぶつに やる たべもの。
- Korean
- 먹이, 미끼 (이)
- Chinese
- 饲料、诱饵 (饵)
Readings, words and example sentences
ジ ji · on reading · less common
好餌
easy prey, tempting bait
人を だます 者の 好餌に なりません。
I won't become easy prey for people who trick others.
え e · kun reading · less common
餌食
prey, victim
小魚が 餌食に なります。
Small fish become prey.
えさ esa · kun reading
餌
food (for animals), bait
金魚に 餌を やります。
I feed the goldfish.
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Readings, radicals: Kanjium, KANJIDIC2 (CC BY-SA 4.0); strokes: KanjiVG (CC BY-SA 3.0); Korean, simplified forms: Unicode Unihan. Meanings, sentences: Dino Kids (CC0). See Licences.