餌 — kanji meaning “food”
餌
food, bait, prey, tempting profit
- Meanings
- food, bait, prey, tempting profit
- On'yomi
- ジ (ji)、ニ (ni)
- Kun'yomi
- え、えば、えさ、もち
- Strokes
- 14
- School grade
- 8
- Newspaper frequency
- #2277 of 2,500
- Classical radical
- 184
- Chinese reading
- ěr — Chinese character page
Words with 餌
| Word | Reading | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 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 |
| 給餌 | きゅうじ kyuuji | feeding (an animal) |
| 食餌 | しょくじ shokuji | food (esp. for a medical diet) |
| 撒き餌 | まきえ makie | scattered animal feed; ground bait |
| 生き餌 | いきえ ikie | live bait |
| 好餌 | こうじ kouji | bait; decoy; lure |
| 擂り餌 | すりえ surie | ground food |
| 薬餌 | やくじ yakuji | medicine; drugs |
| 薬餌療法 | やくじりょうほう yakujiryouhou | treatment by medicine and diet |
| 餌付く | えづく ezuku | to begin to eat or feed |
| 擬餌 | ぎじ giji | lure; artificial bait |
Data: KANJIDIC2 (CC BY-SA 4.0); KanjiVG (CC BY-SA 3.0); JMdict (CC BY-SA 4.0). Retrieved 2026-10-22.
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