餌 — food, bait, prey

えさ餌 food

えさ

U+990C Unicode hex codepoint — a unique identifier for this character in the Unicode standard. Freq #2277 Frequency rank among the ~2,500 most common kanji in Japanese newspapers. Lower number = more common. Heisig #1588 Index in James Heisig's "Remembering the Kanji" — a popular textbook that teaches kanji through mnemonics and stories.

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Meanings

food
bait
prey
tempting profit

Readings

On'yomi: じ ji に ni
Kun'yomi: えさ esa え e えば eba もち mochi

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えさ esa Kun'yomi Kun'yomi (訓読み) — the native Japanese reading of this kanji. Used when the kanji appears alone or with okurigana (trailing hiragana).

餌(えさ) esa bait

Words by frequency and grade

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Each dot is a word containing 餌: further left is more common, higher up needs a later school grade (the grade of its hardest kanji). Click a dot to open the word.

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Stroke order

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Components

Composed of

𩙿 food

みみ耳 ear #128

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Kangxi Radical The Kangxi radicals are a set of 214 character components standardized in the 1716 Kangxi Dictionary. Every kanji is classified under one radical, used for dictionary lookup and character organization.

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