Chinese character for bait

𩛽 is an old Chinese character, read táo in Mandarin and glossed as “bait” or “food”; older dictionaries give it as a form of 𪌼. A classical account describes 𩛽陰 as a place on the southern border of the ancient Chinese state of Qi, but a scholar in China’s Qing dynasty argued that it was a copying error for 岱陰, “north of Mount Tai.”