畜

Translingual

Han character

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

Derived characters

• 蓄

References

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

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Chinese

simp. and trad.		畜
alternative forms		嘼 𠬀 𤛅 𤠕 𤲸 嘼 𠬀 𤛅 𤠕 𤲸 蓄 𠾧

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 畜
Shang	Western Zhou	Warring States	Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han)
Oracle bone script	Bronze inscriptions	Chu slip and silk script	Small seal script

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

	Old Chinese
畜	*l̥ʰuɡs, *l̥ʰuɡ, *hluɡ
蓄	*l̥ʰuɡ, *hluɡ
稸	*l̥ʰuɡ, *hluɡ
滀	*l̥ʰuɡ
傗	*l̥ʰuɡ
鄐	*l̥ʰuɡ, *hluɡ
慉	*hluɡ

Pictogram (象形) : 玄 (“rope tying the bag of feed”) + 田 (“bag of feed”) – a bag of feed, hence livestock.

Alternatively, 玄 (“rope”) + 田 or 囿 (“pen; fold; enclosure”) – tying animals and raising them in the enclosure.

Etymology

“To raise; to rear (an animal)” (*–k) > “domesticated animal; livestock” (*–k–s, exopassive: “what has been raised”). The various pronunciations in Old and Middle Chinese have been confused or merged in many extant dialects.

Etymology unknown. Probably from Proto-Sino-Tibetan *hu (“to be born; birth; to rear”), and thus may be related to 好 (OC *qʰuːʔ, *qʰuːs, “good; to like”) (Matisoff). Alternatively, from Proto-Sino-Tibetan *kruŋ (“to live; alive; to be born; to give birth; green; sprout”), whence Tibetan འཁྲུང ('khrung, “to be born; to arise; to sprout”) (Schuessler, 2007).

Zhengzhang (2015) relates Tibetan ལུག (lug, “sheep”) to this word; this would be parallel to 羊 (OC *laŋ, “sheep”) ?~ 養 (OC *laŋʔ, *laŋs, “to rear”) (Sagart, 1999). In Sagart (1999), 畜 is related to 育 (OC *luɡ, “to nourish”) and 鞠 (OC *kuɡ, *kʰuɡ, *ɡuɡ, “to rear”).

Pronunciation 1

Definitions

(deprecated template usage) 畜

1. to nourish; to raise; to rear
2. to bring up; to nurture; to foster; to cultivate
3. ^† to submit; to obey; to comply
4. ^† to tolerate; to allow
5. ^† to keep; to house; to collect
6. ^† (deprecated template usage) Alternative form of 蓄 (xù, “to store up; to accumulate”).
7. ^† (deprecated template usage) Alternative form of 慉 (xù, “to like”).
8. (dialectal, of a smell) to irritate one's respiratory organs
9. a surname

Pronunciation 2

Definitions

(deprecated template usage) 畜

1. livestock; domesticated animal; farm animal

   家畜  ―  jiāchù  ―  domesticated animal

2. creature; beast

   畜生  ―  chùshēng  ―  beast, brute

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Japanese

Kanji

畜

(common “Jōyō” kanji)

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Readings

• Go-on: ちく (chiku, Jōyō); きく (kiku)
• Kan-on: ちく (chiku, Jōyō); きく (kiku)
• Kun: たくわえる (takuwaeru, 畜える); やしなう (yashinau, 畜う); かう (kau, 畜う)

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Korean

Hanja

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

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Vietnamese

Han character

(deprecated template usage) 畜 (súc, húc, sục)

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Compounds

• lục súc 六畜

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