a wild boar

Phonosemantic compound. represents the meaning and represents the sound.

Components
虍 sound component

  Sound component

  

tiger

is a component form of .

豕 meaning component

  Meaning component

shǐ

  

pig

Evolution

豦 Bronze script Mid Western Zhou (~900 BC)

Bronze script

Mid Western Zhou (~900 BC)
豦 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

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

Clerical script

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

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

 

a wild boar; to fight

Component uses

Sound component in 6 characters (2 verified)

Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

Miscellaneous

Strokes

13

Unicode

U+8C66

Shuowen

“豦,鬬相丮不解也。从豕、虍。豕虍之鬬不解也。讀若蘮蒘草之蘮。司馬相如說豦,封豕之屬。一曰虎兩足舉。”


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