shǐ
pig
Pictograph of a pig.
Evolution

Oracle script
(~1250-1000 BC)
Bronze script
Late Western Zhou (~800 BC)
Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)
Clerical script
Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)Regular script
ModernDefinitions
Most common words with 豕
Freq. | Word | Meaning |
---|---|---|
hog | ||
the wolf runs and the wild boar rushes (idiom); crowds of evil-doers mill around like wild beasts |
Component uses
Historical pronunciation
Old Chinese | Middle Chinese | Pinyin | Gloss |
*l̥ajʔ | syeX | shǐ | swine |
Statistics
Not found in HSK word list
4953rd most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 7 |
Unicode | U+8C55 |
Shuowen | “豕,彘也,竭其尾,故謂之豕,象毛足而後有尾,讀與豨同。按:今世字誤以豕為彘,以彘為豕,何以明之?為口豕从豕,蟸从彘,皆取其聲,以是明之。,古文。” |
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