Chinese Character Wiki
豕

shǐ

pig

Pictograph of a pig.

Evolution

豕 Oracle script (~1250-1000 BC)

Oracle script

(~1250-1000 BC)
豕 Bronze script Late Western Zhou (~800 BC)

Bronze script

Late Western Zhou (~800 BC)
豕 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

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

Clerical script

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

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

豕  

shǐ

a pig, boar; KangXi radical 152; hog; swine

Most common words with 豕
Freq.
Word
Meaning

豕

hog

狼奔豕突

the wolf runs and the wild boar rushes (idiom); crowds of evil-doers mill around like wild beasts

Component uses

Meaning component in 8 characters (3 verified)

豬 豭 豦 豪 豢 圂 豱 豩

Sound component in 2 characters (1 verified)

㒸 甤

Iconic component in 6 characters (5 verified)

敢 逐 豚 彘 彖 豖

Historical pronunciation

Old Chinese

Middle Chinese

Pinyin

Gloss

*l̥ajʔ

syeX

shǐ

swine


Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

4953rd most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

7

Unicode

U+8C55

Shuowen

“豕，彘也，竭其尾，故謂之豕，象毛足而後有尾，讀與豨同。按：今世字誤以豕為彘，以彘為豕，何以明之？為口豕从豕，蟸从彘，皆取其聲，以是明之。，古文。”


This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License.
Creative Commons License