饵 (ěr): bait
饵 (ěr) is a Chinese character meaning “bait.” Classified as HSK Level 7-9 (HSK 3.0 Standard, CLEC 2022), it is composed of 饣 (semantic) and 耳 (phonetic). It ranks #2819 in character frequency (SUBTLEX-CH corpus).
Etymologically derived, 饵 food. Its radical form 饣 (eat) appears in many related characters such as 饭 (fàn, meal, rice), 饿 (è, hungry), 馆 (guǎn, restaurant, hall).
Definitions
- bait
Etymology & Origin
Stroke Order
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Words & Compounds
Common Compounds
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 诱饵 | yòu ěr | bait |
| 鱼饵 | yú ěr | fish bait |
| 饵子 | ěr zi | fish bait |
| 饵线 | ěr xiàn | tippet (in fly-fishing) |
| 饵敌 | ěr dí | to lure the enemy |
| 饵雷 | ěr léi | baited trap |
| 散饵 | sǎn ěr | groundbait |
| 饵丝 | ěr sī | a kind of rice-flour noodles from Yunnan province |
| 禄饵 | lù ěr | official pay as bait (for talent) |
| 饵诱 | ěr yòu | to lure |
| 饼饵 | bǐng ěr | cakes |
| 饺饵 | jiǎo ěr | dumpling |
饵 appears in 12 compound words: 50 as the first character, 50 as the last, and 0 in a middle position. Compound statistics computed from SUBTLEX-CH and HSK 3.0 vocabulary data.
Strongest Collocations
Characters that most frequently co-occur with 饵 in natural Chinese text, ranked by NPMI (Normalized Pointwise Mutual Information) — a statistical measure of association strength.
Example Sentences
钓鱼需要准备好鱼饵，不同的鱼喜欢不同的饵料。
Diàoyú xūyào zhǔnbèi hǎo yú'ěr, bùtóng de yú xǐhuan bùtóng de ěrliào.
Fishing requires preparing bait; different fish like different kinds of bait.
美研发AI水下无人载具 可发射诱饵鱼雷、无人机
měi yán fā A I shuǐ xià wú rén zài jù kě fā shè yòu ěr yú léi , wú rén jī
The United States has developed AI underwater unmanned vehicles that can launch decoy torpedoes and drones
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.
用这个当诱饵啊？
Yòng zhège dāng yòu'ěr ā?
Using this as a bait?
Character Family
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