tún
small pig
Depicts the meat (⺼) from a small pig (豕).
Evolution
Oracle script
(~1250-1000 BC)
Bronze script
Early Western Zhou (~1000 BC)
Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)
Clerical script
Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)Regular script
ModernDefinitions
Most common words with 豚
Freq. | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
dolphin | ||
puffer | ||
guinea pig (Cavia porcellus) | ||
suckling pig | ||
river dolphin |
Historical pronunciation
Old Chinese | Middle Chinese | Pinyin | Gloss |
*lˤu[n]ʔ | dwonX | dùn | drag feet; withdraw |
*lˤu[n] | dwon | tún | young pig |
Statistics
Not found in HSK word list
Appears in 2.3546% of movies
2595th most common character in movies
3307th most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 11 |
Unicode | U+8C5A |
Shuowen | “，小豕也。从彖省，象形。从又持肉，以給祠祀。豚，篆文从肉、豕。” |
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