Chinese Character Wiki

兽

shòu

beast

An animal with horns 丷, eyes 田, nose 一, and mouth 口

Components
丷 meaning component

丷  Meaning component

bā, xx

  

“ears-out” component used in some Chinese characters (e.g. U+5151 兑)

田 meaning component

田  Meaning component

tián

  

field

一 meaning component

一  Meaning component

yī

  

one

口 meaning component

口  Meaning component

kǒu

  

mouth

Evolution

兽 Oracle script (~1250-1000 BC)

Oracle script

(~1250-1000 BC)
兽 Bronze script Late Shang dynasty (~1100 BC)

Bronze script

Late Shang dynasty (~1100 BC)
兽 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
兽 Clerical script Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)

Clerical script

Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)
兽 Traditional script Modern

Traditional script

Modern
兽 Simplified script Modern

Simplified script

Modern
Definitions

兽 (獸) 

shòu

beast, animal; bestial; beast; animal; beastly

Most common words with 兽
Freq.
Word
Meaning

兽

beast

怪兽

rare animal

野兽

beast

兽医

vet

禽兽

creature

Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

Appears in 15.3612% of movies

1462nd most common character in movies

1602nd most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

11

Traditional

獸

Unicode

U+517D


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