畜

Translingual

Etymology

Pictogram (象形): 玄 + 田 – a bag of feed, hence livestock. Top was originally the string tying the bag, bottom was the bag.

Han character

畜 (radical 102 田+5, 10 strokes, cangjie input 卜女戈田 (YVIW), four-corner 0060₃)

1. livestock, domestic animals

Derived characters

• 蓄

References

• KangXi: page 761, character 12
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 21814
• Dae Jaweon: page 1171, character 5
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 4, page 2538, character 4
• Unihan data for U+755C

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Cantonese

Hanzi

畜 (Yale chuk1)

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Japanese

Kanji

畜 (common “Jōyō” kanji)

Readings

• On: ちく (chiku), きく (kiku), きゅう (kyū)
• Kun: たくわえる (takuwaeru), やしなう (yashinau), かう (kau)

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Korean

Hanja

畜 (hangeul 축, 휵, revised chuk, hyuk, McCune-Reischauer ch'uk, hyuk, Yale chwuk, hyuk)

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Mandarin

Hanzi

畜 (pinyin chù (chu4), Wade-Giles ch'u⁴)

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Vietnamese

Han character

畜 (súc, húc, sục)

• lục súc 六畜

Readings

• Nôm: súc

References

• Thiều Chửu : Hán Việt Tự Điển Hà Nội 1942
• Trần Văn Chánh: Từ Điển Hán Việt NXB Trẻ, Ho Chi Minh Ville, 1999
• Vũ Văn Kính: Đại Tự Điển Chữ Nôm , NXB Văn Nghệ, Ho Chi Minh Ville, 1999