豚
Tap the pinyin to hear it
suckling pig
- Strokes
- 11
- Radical
- 豕 +4
- Structure
- Left–right 左右
- Traditional
- 豚
- Common rank
- #2,676
- Unicode
- U+8C5A
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Formation & memory
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How 豚 is formed
Pictograph (象形字)
A pig 豕 suckling at its mother's teat ⺼
Components ⺼ 豕
Words with 豚
The most common words first — learning a character in context makes it stick.
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 河豚毒素 | tetrodotoxin (TTX) | |
| 海豚音 | (singing) (coll.) whistle note | |
| 海豚座 | Delphinus (constellation) | |
| 鼠海豚 | porpoise | |
| 瓶鼻海豚 | bottle-nosed dolphin (Tursiops truncatus) | |
| 海豚馆 | dolphinarium | |
| 水豚 | capybara | |
| 海豚 | dolphin | |
| 河豚 | blowfish; puffer (Tetraodontidae) | |
| 江豚 | river dolphin | |
| 土豚 | aardvark | |
| 宽吻海豚 | bottle-nosed dolphin (Tursiops truncatus) | |
| 豚鼠 | guinea pig (Cavia porcellus) | |
| 白鳍豚 | see 白鱀豚|白𬶨豚[bai2 ji4 tun2] | |
| 鲸豚 | cetacean | |
| 白𬶨豚 | Chinese river dolphin (Lipotes vexillifer) |