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饵

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pastry; food; to swallow; to lure; bait; lure

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Strokes
9
Radical
食 +6
Structure
Left–right 左右
Traditional
餌
Common rank
#3,001
Unicode
U+9975

Formation & memory

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How 饵 is formed

Phono-semantic compound (形声字)

饣 meaning “food” + 耳 sound ( ěr )

Components 饣 耳

Words with 饵

The most common words first — learning a character in context makes it stick.

WordPinyinMeaning
饵子 ěr zi fish bait
饵线 ěr xiàn tippet (in fly-fishing)
鱼饵 yú ěr fish bait
饵雷 ěr léi baited trap; booby-trap
散饵 sǎn ěr groundbait
饵丝 ěr sī a kind of rice-flour noodles from Yunnan province
饵敌 ěr dí to lure the enemy; to trap
饼饵 bǐng ěr cakes; pastry
禄饵 lù ěr official pay as bait (for talent)
诱饵 yòu ěr bait
饵诱 ěr yòu to lure; to entice
饺饵 jiǎo ěr dumpling; pot-sticker; same as 餃子|饺子

Sound family

Characters sharing the sound component 耳 — compare how they read.

CharacterPinyinMeaning
耳 sound part ěr ear; to hear, to hear of; handle
茸 róng soft, downy; buds, sprouts
洱 ěr a lake in Yunnan province
铒 ěr erbium