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Kanji Detail for 畜 - "livestock, domestic animals"

  • Meaning

    畜 means "livestock, domestic animals." Also associated with to raise.

    1. Livestock - Animals raised for farming purposes.

    2. Domestic animals - Animals kept and bred by humans.

    3. Raise - To keep and breed animals.

    4. Store - To accumulate; to save up.

  • Words using

    • 家畜 かちく Listen domestic animals; livestock; cattle
    • 畜産 ちくさん Listen animal husbandry; livestock industry
    • 牧畜 ぼくちく Listen stock-farming; livestock farming; cattle breeding
    • 畜生 ちくしょう Listen damn it; damn; son of a bitch
  • Four-character idioms with

    • 人畜無害 じんちくむがい Listen harmless to humans and animals; having no influence; unimportant
  • Tattoo check:

    • Verified meaning: livestock, domestic animals
    • Official Jōyō kanji — a standard character every Japanese reader recognises
    • Also carries these associations: to raise

    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.

  • Dictionary Citations

    The meaning above is based on the following sources:

    KANJIDIC2 A comprehensive Japanese-English kanji dictionary

    livestock; domestic fowl and animals

    Unihan Unicode Han Database for CJK characters

    livestock, domestic animals

    CC-CEDICT A Chinese-English dictionary

    livestock; domesticated animal; domestic animal

    Make Me a Hanzi Open-source Chinese character data

    livestock, domestic animals

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

    In the wild are called beasts. In homes are called livestock. Horse, ox, sheep, chicken, dog, and pig. These are called the six livestock. Also read with Fanqie 喜宥切. | To raise. (Analects) "When the ruler gave him a live animal, he must keep it alive." | To accommodate. "Accommodating the people and gathering the masses." Seen in (Book of Changes).
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  • Kunyomi

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  • Strokes

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Sentences including

  • Fuck!

  • Damn it!

  • I rear cattle.

  • The cattle starved to death.

  • Shit! I've got a flat.

  • The animals which live on farms are domesticated.

  • Their cattle are all fat.

  • Because of the famine, the cattle starved to death.

  • Because of the famine, the cattle starved to death.

  • Their cattle are all fat.

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