豚

音読おんよみ: トン

訓読くんよみ: ぶた

画数かくすう: 11

部首ぶしゅ: ⺼(にくづき)

Meaning

Pig; hog; by extension, pork and pig meat in general.

  • ぶた — pig
  • 豚肉ぶたにく — pork; pig meat
  • 豚汁とんじる — miso soup with pork
  • 子豚こぶた — piglet
  • 養豚ようとん — pig farming; hog raising

combines the meat radical にくづき(⺼) on the left with a phonetic part on the right. The left side tells you this kanji is related to flesh or meat, and together they came to mean the animal raised for meat — the pig.

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