Character Details
| pig | Ascii: — | w380 | |||||||||
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| Hanyu | Pinyin | Pronunciation | Tone | Components/Primitives | Wiktionary | Alt Sounds | |||||
| 猪 | zhū | djoo | 1 | 犭 (dog) + 者 (person) → pig | 猪 link | ||||||
| Picture | Character Story | ||||||||||
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My puppet is made of special pheremone‑impregnated vinyl. Unfortunately, a pack of wild dogs mistook her for a pig and tore her to pieces. Oh dear! | ||||||||||
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| [HSK 2] - — | |||||||||||
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| - I’ll have the pork dumplings | - --Research Pending-- | ||||||||||
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| Single Character Decomposition | |||||||||||
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| Radical | Name | Label | Domain | Component Persona | Example Characters | ||||||
| 96 - 爿 | pán | dog | split wood | split‑log shape | 爿 片 | ||||||
| Elements | Semantic Element | Phonetic Element | Note | ||||||||
| 犭 (dog) + 者 (person) → pig | 犬 (semantic) | 者 (phonetic) | phonetic from 者 | ||||||||