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豚

Pig
Stroke count: 11

Readings

On readingトン
Kun readingぶた

Meanings

  1. pig
  2. porkRtK
    豚肉は私には合わない。Pork doesn't agree with me.tatoeba
    豚肉から出るエキスが出汁となる。Extract of pork is used as a soup stock.wiki
  1. pig (Sus scrofa domesticus)
  2. fatso
  3. fatty

Synonyms

豚肉

Popular Usage

豚肉

Radicals and components

Radical豕pig
Components
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Mnemonic (RtK)

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moon (月) · month (月) · flesh (月) · part of the body (月) · sow · pig

From "Remembering the Kanji" by James Heisig · Frame 577

Compound words

彼の立派な演説も豚に真珠に等しかった。
His great oration was like pearls before swine.tatoeba
豚は太ってきている。
The pig is growing fat.tatoeba
豚の前に真珠を投げ与えるな。
Do not cast pearls before swine.tatoeba
東松山市のやきとりは、豚肉である。
Yakitori in Higashimatsuyama City uses pork.wiki

Real voices: how native speakers say it

These sentences were read aloud by real people — native Japanese speakers — for the open Mozilla Common Voice project. Listen to how a phrase sounds in real speech: the intonation, the pace, the way words run together. Two speakers mean two different people read it — compare them.

豚肉を二百グラム買います。
ぶたにくをにひゃくぐらむかいます。I'll buy two hundred grams of pork.
牛肉より豚肉が好きなのは家族で自分だけ
ぎゅうにくよりぶたにくがすきなのはかぞくでじぶんだけOnly I in the family prefer pork to beef.
貪欲で残酷な人や国のたとえ。大きな豚と長い蛇の意。
どんよくでざんこくなひとやくにのたとえ。おおきなぶたとながいへびのい。A metaphor for greedy and cruel people or nations; a large pig and a long snake.

Recordings and sentences: Mozilla Common Voice, CC0

Stroke Order

11 strokes

Pig. 月 (meat) + 豕 (pig) — a pig kept for its meat.

Practice Writing

Practice Writing 豚

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