Chinese Character Wiki

獸

shòu

beast

Components
嘼 sound component

嘼  Sound component

  

犬 meaning component

犬  Meaning component

quǎn

  

dog

animal

Evolution

獸 Oracle script (~1250-1000 BC)

Oracle script

(~1250-1000 BC)
獸 Bronze script Late Shang dynasty (~1100 BC)

Bronze script

Late Shang dynasty (~1100 BC)
獸 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

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

Clerical script

Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)
獸 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

兽 (獸) 

shòu

beast, animal; bestial; beast; animal; beastly

Most common words with 獸
Freq.
Word
Meaning

兽

beast

怪兽

rare animal

野兽

beast

兽医

vet

禽兽

creature

Historical pronunciation

Old Chinese

Middle Chinese

Pinyin

Gloss

*s.tʰu(ʔ)-s

syuwH

shòu

(wild) animal


Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

Appears in 15.3612% of movies

1462nd most common character in movies

1602nd most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

19

Simplified

兽

Unicode

U+7378

Shuowen

“獸，守備者。从嘼，从犬。”


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