Chinese Character Wiki
豚

tún

small pig

Depicts the meat (⺼) from a small pig (豕).

Components
⺼ iconic component

⺼  Iconic component

ròu

  

meat, flesh

⺼ is a component form of 肉.

豕 iconic component

豕  Iconic component

shǐ

  

pig

Evolution

豚 Oracle script (~1250-1000 BC)

Oracle script

(~1250-1000 BC)
豚 Bronze script Early Western Zhou (~1000 BC)

Bronze script

Early Western Zhou (~1000 BC)
豚 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
豚 Clerical script Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)

Clerical script

Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)
豚 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

豚  

tún

small pig, suckling pig; suffle; suckling pig

Most common words with 豚
Freq.
Word
Meaning

海豚

dolphin

河豚

puffer

豚鼠

guinea pig (Cavia porcellus)

豚

suckling pig

江豚

river dolphin

Historical pronunciation

Old Chinese

Middle Chinese

Pinyin

Gloss

*lˤu[n]ʔ

dwonX

dùn

drag feet; withdraw

*lˤu[n]

dwon

tún

young pig


Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

Appears in 2.3546% of movies

2595th most common character in movies

3307th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

11

Unicode

U+8C5A

Shuowen

“，小豕也。从彖省，象形。从又持肉，以給祠祀。豚，篆文从肉、豕。”


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