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Kanji Detail for 豚 - "pig, pork"

豚

  • Meaning

    豚 means "pig, pork."

    1. Pig - A domesticated animal raised for meat.

    2. Pork - The meat of a pig.

  • Words using 豚

    • 豚肉 ぶたにく Listen pork
    • 豚カツ とんかつ Listen tonkatsu; breaded pork cutlet

  • Origin of 豚

    ⺼, the flesh radical, beside 豕, the pig: the Shuowen gives the original sense as a young pig, and Japanese uses it for the pig and its meat alike. 豚カツ is the cutlet, 養豚 pig farming.

    How to remember it: Meat ⺼ beside the pig 豕 that supplies it — pork.

    Sources: en.wiktionary.org · mojinavi.com

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    • Verified meaning: pig, pork
    • Official Jōyō kanji — a standard character every Japanese reader recognises

    A single kanji rarely maps one-to-one onto an English word. Read the meanings and associations above as a set — a character that fits the dictionary definition can still carry a connotation you did not intend.

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  • Dictionary Citations

    The meaning above is based on the following sources:

    KANJIDIC2 A comprehensive Japanese-English kanji dictionary

    pork; pig

    Unihan Unicode Han Database for CJK characters

    small pig, suckling pig; shuffle one's feet

    CC-CEDICT A Chinese-English dictionary

    suckling pig

    Make Me a Hanzi Open-source Chinese character data

    suckling pig; to suckle

    XSZD Xuéshēng Zìdiǎn (學生字典) - Student's Dictionary

    A small pig.

  • Onyomi

    tip

    ton(トン) トン

  • Kunyomi

    tip

    buta(ぶた) ぶた

  • Strokes

    tip

    11 strokes

  • Radical

    tip

    豕 (inoko・inokohen・buta)

  • Related Keywords

    pig pork hog swine bacon ham boar livestock farm meat sausage domesticated

Sentences including 豚

  • Pork doesn't agree with me.

  • This pork is a bit off.

More kanji with the radical 豕 (inoko・inokohen・buta)

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