獸

See also: 獣 and 兽

Translingual

Traditional	獸
Shinjitai	獣
Simplified	兽

Han character

獸 (Kangxi radical 94, 犬+15, 19 strokes, cangjie input 口口戈大 (RRIK) or 難口口戈大 (XRRIK), four-corner 6363₄, composition ⿰嘼犬)

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 721, character 3
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 20775
• Dae Jaweon: page 1132, character 19
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 2, page 1375, character 5
• Unihan data for U+7378

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Chinese

trad.		獸
simp.		兽

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 獸
Shang	Western Zhou	Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han)	Liushutong (compiled in Ming)
Oracle bone script	Bronze inscriptions	Small seal script	Transcribed ancient scripts

Characters in the same phonetic series (嘼) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 

	Old Chinese
獸	*qʰljus
嘼	*qʰlus

Definitions

(deprecated template usage) 獸

1. beast, animal
2. bestial

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Japanese

Shinjitai	獣
Kyūjitai	獸

Kanji

獸

(“Jinmeiyō” kanji used for names, kyūjitai kanji, shinjitai form 獣)

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Readings

• Go-on: しゅ (shu)
• Kan-on: しゅう (shū)
• Kan’yō-on: じゅう (jū)
• Kun: けもの (kemono, 獸); けだもの (kedamono, 獸)

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Korean

Hanja

獸 • (su) (hangeul 수, McCune–Reischauer su, Yale swu)

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Compounds

• 수간 (獸姦, sugan, “bestiality (sexual activity)”)

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Vietnamese

Han character

(deprecated template usage) 獸 (thú)

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