Chinese Character Wiki
猪

zhū

pig

Phonosemantic compound. 犭 represents the meaning and 者 represents the sound. Simplified form of 豬.

Components
犭 meaning component

犭  Meaning component

quǎn

  

dog

犭 is a component form of 犬.

者 sound component

者  Sound component

zhě

  

one who...

Evolution

猪 Bronze script Late Warring States (~250 BC)

Bronze script

Late Warring States (~250 BC)
猪 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

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

Clerical script

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

Traditional script

Modern
猪 Simplified script Modern

Simplified script

Modern
Definitions

猪 (豬) 

zhū

pig, hog; hog; pig; swine; CL:口[kǒu],頭|头[tóu]

Most common words with 猪
Freq.
Word
Meaning

猪

hog

猪肉

pork

猪头

pig head

野猪

wild boar (Sus scrofa)

猪排

pork ribs

Component uses

Sound component in 2 characters (0 verified)

潴 橥

Statistics

HSK level 3

Appears in 20.3588% of movies

1261st most common character in movies

1762nd most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

11

Traditional

豬

Unicode

U+732A


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