PIG 豬豕
INTENSELY COMMON DOMESTIC ANIMAL USED FOR MEAT.
Old Chinese Criteria
黄金貴:古漢語同義詞辨釋詞典
Modern Chinese Criteria
Hyponym
Hypernym
- BEAST BIG WILD VERTEBRATE. (anc: 7/0, child: 12)
- VERTEBRATE ANIMAL which HAS a SPINE BONE. (anc: 6/0, child: 2)
- ANIMAL CREATURE ABLE to FEEL AND MOVE. (anc: 5/0, child: 12)
PIG
sus is the general word for swine, and the word is typically associated with filthiness.
verres is a boar-pig.
scrofa is a sow kept for breeding.
porcus is a young pig, typically prized for its fatness.
Schwein:
Wildschwein; See also Haustiere
Words (13 items)
彘 zhì OC: deds MC: ɖiɛi 17 Attributions
Zhì 彘 is the standard old word for the domestic pig.
- Word relations
- Assoc: 狗/DOG
Gǒu 狗is a colloquial word for a dog (according to some early commentators a small dog, and it is plausible that the colloquial word may have referred to the small dog in particular).
- Syntactic words
- ndomestic pig
- nadNcharacteristic of a pig (e.g. bristles)
豚 tún OC: duun MC: duo̝n 9 Attributions
Tún 豚 refers to a piglet.
- Syntactic words
- npiglet
豕 shǐ OC: qhjeʔ MC: ɕiɛ 4 Attributions
The most general word for a wild boar and a domestic pig of any kind is shǐ 豕.
- Syntactic words
- nOBI 5: wild boar; pig
豬 zhū OC: k-la MC: ʈi̯ɤ 2 Attributions
Zhū 豬 is rare in ancient texts and tends to cooccur with other words for "pig" and would appear to be a colloquialism.
- Syntactic words
- nyoung pig; pig
豝 bā OC: praa MC: pɣɛ 1 Attribution
- Syntactic words
- nsow
豬彘 zhū zhì MC: trjo drjejH OC: k-la deds 1 Attribution
- Syntactic words
- NPpigs (in general)LZ
㹠子 tún zǐ MC: trwin tsiX OC: duun sklɯʔ 1 Attribution
- Syntactic words
- NPpiglet; suckling pigDS
豜 jiān OC: keen MC: ken 0 Attributions
- Syntactic words
- nlarge pig (three years old)
豦 jù OC: klas MC: ki̯ɤ 0 Attributions
- Syntactic words
- nkind of boar
豰 bó OC: bɢrooɡ MC: bɣɔk 0 Attributions
- Syntactic words
- nSHUOWEN: piglet
豲 huán OC: ɢoon MC: ɦʷɑn 0 Attributions
- Syntactic words
- nkind of pig
豵 zōng OC: tsooŋ MC: tsuŋ 0 Attributions
- Syntactic words
- nyoung pig, older than a piglet
豶 fén OC: bɯn MC: bi̯un 0 Attributions
Fén 豶 refers to a castrated pig.
- Syntactic words
- ngelded pig; to castrate