pig

Evolution

豨 Bronze script Mid Western Zhou (~900 BC)

Bronze script

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

Seal script

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

Clerical script

Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)
豨 Clerical script Western Jin dynasty (266-316 AD)

Clerical script

Western Jin dynasty (266-316 AD)
Definitions

 

pig, hog; swine

Historical pronunciation

Old Chinese

Middle Chinese

Pinyin

Gloss

*qʰəj

xj+j

swine

*qʰəjʔ

xj+jX

swine


Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

6603rd most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

14

Unicode

U+8C68

Shuowen

“豨,豕走豨豨。从豕,希聲。古有封豨脩虵之害。”


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