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饵

ěr

Character Traditional 餌

What 饵 means

1. pastry
2. food
3. to swallow
4. to lure
5. bait
6. lure

Example sentences

• 用这个当诱饵啊？
  Using this as a bait?
• 出去钓鱼前，他挖出一些虫子当饵。
  Chūqù diàoyú qián, tā wā chū yīxiē chóngzi dāng ěr.
  Before he went fishing, he dug up some worms for bait.

Words starting with 饵

• 饵子ěr zifish bait
• 饵敌ěr díto lure the enemy; to trap
• 饵丝ěr sīa kind of rice-flour noodles from Yunnan province
• 饵线ěr xiàntippet (in fly-fishing)
• 饵诱ěr yòuto lure; to entice
• 饵雷ěr léibaited trap; booby-trap

Words containing 饵

• 诱饵yòu ěrbait
• 散饵sǎn ěrgroundbait
• 禄饵lù ěrofficial pay as bait (for talent)
• 饼饵bǐng ěrcakes; pastry
• 鱼饵yú ěrfish bait
• 饺饵jiǎo ěrdumpling; pot-sticker; same as 饺子

Characters built on 耳

These share the phonetic component 耳 (ěr), which is why their readings rhyme. Learning them as a family is far cheaper than learning them one at a time.

• 珥ěrpearl or jade earring
• 洱ěrsee 洱海
• 佴èrassistant
• 铒ěrerbium (chemistry)

Characters that look like 饵

Easy to confuse on sight. Compare them side by side once and the pair stops costing you.

• 钢gāngsteel
• 饰shìdecoration; ornament; to decorate
• 钙gàicalcium (chemistry)
• 钡bèibarium (chemistry)
• 恃shì(bound form) to rely on; (literary) one's mother
• 铈shìcerium (chemistry)

Sounds the same

Read ěr, tone for tone, but written differently.

• 尔thus; so; like that
• 耳ear; handle (archaeology); and that is all (Classical Chinese)
• 珥pearl or jade earring
• 迩recently; near; close
• 铒erbium (chemistry)
• 薾luxuriant growth of flower
• 駬(horse)
• 洱see 洱海
• 尓variant of 尔