猎
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hunting
- HSK 3.0
- Level 7–9
- Old HSK
- Level 6
- Strokes
- 11
- Radical
- 犬 +8
- Structure
- Left–right 左右
- Traditional
- 獵
- Common rank
- #1,602
- Unicode
- U+730E
Sound it out + =
Formation & memory
Break the character into parts you already know.
How to remember it
hunt · Heisig RSH #2243
pack of wild dogs + 昔 times past
Keyword method from Heisig's Remembering Simplified Hanzi.
Words with 猎
The most common words first — learning a character in context makes it stick.
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 猎杀红色十月号 | "The Hunt for Red October", a novel by Tom Clancy | |
| 猎户座大星云 | the Great Nebula in Orion M42 | |
| 猎户座流星雨 | Orionids; Orionid meteor shower | |
| 见猎心喜 | lit. seeing others go hunting, one is excited by memories of the thrill of the hunt (idiom… | |
| 猎人 | hunter | |
| 猎头 | headhunting (executive recruitment); headhunter (profession); headhunting (tribal custom) | |
| 赏金猎人 | bounty hunter | |
| 猎手 | hunter | |
| 出猎 | to go out hunting | |
| 猎物 | prey; quarry | |
| 打猎 | to go hunting | |
| 猎户座 | Orion (constellation) | |
| 猎场 | hunting ground | |
| 游猎 | to go on a hunting expedition | |
| 猎犬座 | Canes Venatici (constellation) | |
| 偷猎者 | poacher | |
| 猎刀 | hunting knife | |
| 猎奇 | to hunt for novelty; to seek novelty | |
| 灰猎犬 | greyhound | |
| 猎杀 | to kill (in hunting) |
Sound family
Characters sharing the sound component 昔 — compare how they read.