Japanese symbol for “foraging”
探餌
たんじ
Romaji: tanji
(animal's) foraging
In Japanese, foraging is 探餌, read たんじ (tanji).
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Meanings
- n (animal's) foraging
Kanji and stroke order
Other Japanese words for “foraging”
| Word | Reading | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 索餌 | さくじ sakuji | foraging; feeding |
| 採食 | さいしょく saishoku | foraging; feeding |
Related words
Words that share a kanji.
| Word | Reading | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 探す | さがす sagasu | to search for; to look for; to hunt for |
| 探検 | たんけん tanken | exploration; expedition |
| 探索 | たんさく tansaku | search; lookup; hunt |
| 探偵 | たんてい tantei | detective; investigator; sleuth |
| 探知 | たんち tanchi | detection |
| 探査 | たんさ tansa | probe; inquiry; enquiry |
| 餌食 | えじき ejiki | prey (i.e. of a predator); kill |
| 餌付け | えづけ ezuke | artificial feeding (of wild animals); accustoming (a wild animal) to accepting food from humans; hand-feeding |
See also: Chinese symbol for “foraging”.
Data: JMdict (CC BY-SA 4.0); KANJIDIC2 (CC BY-SA 4.0); KanjiVG (CC BY-SA 3.0); wordfreq (CC BY-SA 4.0 (data)). Retrieved 2026-10-22.