IDENTITY
猪zhūpig
HSK 2Top 800
CORE MEANING
pig
- Part of speech
- noun
- Register
- neutral
Senses
- 1.pigHSK2
FORM & BREAKDOWN
- Radical
- 犭animal radical (quǎn)
- strokes
- 11
- Structure
- left-right compound
- IDS sequence
- ⿰犭者
- animal
- gives the sound zhū
USAGE
Common words
猪肉zhūròupork
小猪xiǎozhūpiglet
Graded examples
他家里养猪。Tā jiā lǐ yǎng zhū.HSK3
His family raises pigs.
RELATIONS
Lookalike — don’t mix up
- 堵
LEARNING
Memory aid
The animal (犭) once called zhě (者) — the pig. (From 豬.)
- HSK version
- 3.0
- Frequency rank
- #800
- Memory aid
- memory-aid
TRUST & SOURCES
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- AI-assisted editorial review
- Last reviewed
- 2026-08-15
Sources
- CC-CEDICT 2026-01-01
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