Hanja Analyzer
猪

猪 — jeo

Meaning and reading as used in Korean (hanja).

Korean reading
돼지[豬] 저
Romanization
jeo
English
pig, hog, wild boar
Mandarin
zhū
Japanese on'yomi
チョ
Japanese kun'yomi
い いのしし
Japanese usage
Jinmeiyō kanji
Newspaper frequency
#1,684 of 2,500
Strokes
11
Variant forms
豬
Radical
犬 (94, 8 residual)
Unicode
U+732A

Parts that make up 猪

  • ⺨ 개 견variant of 犬 옆에서 본 개개와 짐승. 왼쪽에서 ⺨ 로 쓴다
  • 者 놈 자 줄기가 무성한 사탕수수‘자·저·도·서’ 계열의 소리

How 猪 was formed

Traditional analysis treats 猪 as a phonetic-semantic compound involving 犬, 者.

Korean example words with 猪

  • 태호돈太湖猪 Korean gloss: 중국의 태호 유역이 주요 산지인 돼지. 전 세계 품종 가운데 산자 수가 가장 높다.

Definitions from Woorimalsam, National Institute of Korean Language (CC BY-SA 2.0 KR)

Japanese words with 猪

  • 猪いのしし wild boar; wild pig
  • 猪口ちょこ sake cup; small deep porcelain bowl for serving food
  • 猪首いくび bull neck
  • 猪突ちょとつ recklessness; foolhardiness
  • 野猪やちょ wild boar
  • 河猪かわいのしし bush pig
  • 疣猪いぼいのしし warthog (Phacochoerus aethiopicus)
  • 臍猪へそいのしし peccary
  • 猪勇ちょゆう reckless courage; foolhardiness; temerity
  • 玄猪げんちょ day of the boar in the tenth month; mochi eaten on the day of the boar (esp. at the time of the boar)
  • 猪苓ちょれい umbrella polypore sclerotium (used as a diuretic, antipyretic, and antitussive in traditional Chinese medicine)
  • 鹿猪しかいのしし babirusa (Babyrousa babyrussa)

Other hanja read “저”

Other hanja with radical 犬

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