猪
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hog; pig; swine; CL:口[kou3],頭|头[tou2]
- HSK 3.0
- Level 3
- Old HSK
- Level 5
- Strokes
- 11
- Radical
- 犬 +8
- Structure
- Left–right 左右
- Traditional
- 猪
- Common rank
- #987
- Unicode
- U+732A
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Formation & memory
Break the character into parts you already know.
How to remember it
pig · Heisig RSH #1039
pack of wild dogs + puppet
Keyword method from Heisig's Remembering Simplified Hanzi.
Words with 猪
The most common words first — learning a character in context makes it stick.
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 猪下水 | pig offal | |
| 猪流感病毒 | swine influenza virus (SIV) | |
| 白皮猪 | (derog.) white person; white pig | |
| 猪狗不如 | worse than a dog or pig; lower than low | |
| 猪流感 | swine influenza; swine flu; influenza A (H1N1) | |
| 子猪 | variant of 仔豬|仔猪[zi3 zhu1] | |
| 巴克夏猪 | Berkshire pig; Berkshire swine | |
| 猪头 | pig head; (coll.) fool; jerk | |
| 生猪 | live pig; pig on the hoof | |
| 猪水泡病 | swine vesicular disease (SVD) | |
| 不怕神一样的对手，就怕猪一样的队友 | (saying) a boneheaded teammate can do you more harm than the most formidable opponent | |
| 时间是把杀猪刀 | lit. time is a butcher's knife; fig. time marches on, relentless and unforgiving; nothing … | |
| 公猪异味 | boar taint, the taste or odor of sweat or urine in pork from uncastrated pigs | |
| 公猪 | boar | |
| 猪红 | (Cantonese) coagulated pig's blood (as food) | |
| 死了张屠夫，不吃混毛猪 | lit. just because Zhang the butcher dies, doesn't mean we'll have to eat pork mixed with b… | |
| 江猪 | Chinese river dolphin, Lipotes vexillifer | |
| 架子猪 | feeder pig | |
| 猪年 | Year of the Boar (e.g. 2007) | |
| 猪场 | piggery |
Sound family
Characters sharing the sound component 者 — compare how they read.
| Character | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 者 sound part | that which; they who; those who | |
| 都 | all, each, entirely, whole; metropolis; capital | |
| 诸 | all, many, various; surname | |
| 著 | to show, to prove, to make known | |
| 署 | bureau, public office; to sign | |
| 赌 | to bet, to gamble, to wager | |
| 绪 | mental state; thread, clue | |
| 屠 | to butcher, to slaughter; massacre | |
| 暑 | hot; heat; summer | |
| 煮 | to boil, to cook | |
| 堵 | wall; to stop, to prevent, to block | |
| 奢 | exaggerated; extravagant, wasteful | |
| 睹 | to look at, to gaze at; to observe | |
| 渚 | islet, sandbar | |
| 箸 | chopsticks | |
| 褚 | bag, valise; to pad, to stuff; surname | |
| 赭 | hematite; ochre, reddish-brown | |
| 啫 | onomatopoeic; an interjection of warning | |
| 楮 | mulberry; paper |