豚

Translingual

Han character

豚 (Kangxi radical 152, 豕+4, 11 strokes, cangjie input 月一尸人 (BMSO), four-corner 7123₂, composition ⿰月豕)

1. small pig, suckling pig
2. used in names for dolphins and porpoises in combination with other characters, such as in 海豚 (dolphin, or sea-pig).

Derived characters

• 遯, 𧲝

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 1194, character 23
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 36352
• Dae Jaweon: page 1657, character 13
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 6, page 3611, character 8
• Unihan data for U+8C5A

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Chinese

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 豚
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 (豚) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 

	Old Chinese
豚	*duːn
遯	*duːnʔ, *duːns

Etymology 1

trad.		豚
simp. #		豚
alternative forms		豘

Probably related to 彖 (OC *l̥ʰoːns, “running pig”) and 貒 (OC *tʰoːn, “hog badger”) (Schuessler, 2007).

Outside of Chinese, it is probably related to Proto-Mien *duŋᴮ (“pig”) (Sagart, 1999; Schuessler, 2007; Ratliff, 2010).

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): tún (tun²)

  (Zhuyin): ㄊㄨㄣˊ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): tyun⁴
• Hakka (Sixian, PFS): thùn
• Southern Min (Hokkien, POJ): thûn
• Wu (Wugniu)
  • (Northern): ⁶den

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: tún
    • Zhuyin: ㄊㄨㄣˊ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: tún
    • Wade–Giles: tʻun²
    • Yale: twún
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: twen
    • Palladius: тунь (tunʹ)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /tʰu̯ən³⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
    • Jyutping: tyun⁴
    • Yale: tyùhn
    • Cantonese Pinyin: tyn⁴
    • Guangdong Romanization: tün⁴
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /tʰyːn²¹/
• Hakka
  • (Sixian, incl. Miaoli and Meinong)
    • Pha̍k-fa-sṳ: thùn
    • Hakka Romanization System: tunˇ
    • Hagfa Pinyim: tun²
    • Sinological IPA: /tʰun¹¹/
• Southern Min
  • (Hokkien)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: thûn
    • Tâi-lô: thûn
    • Phofsit Daibuun: tuun
    • IPA (Xiamen): /tʰun²⁴/
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /tʰun²⁴/
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /tʰun¹³/
    • IPA (Taipei): /tʰun²⁴/
    • IPA (Kaohsiung): /tʰun²³/
• Wu
  • (Shanghai):
    • Wugniu: ⁶den
    • MiniDict: den^去
    • Wiktionary Romanisation (Shanghai): ³den
    • Sinological IPA (Shanghai): /dən²³/

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• Middle Chinese: dwon

Rime
Character	豚
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	定 (7)
Final (韻)	魂 (55)
Tone (調)	Level (Ø)
Openness (開合)	Closed
Division (等)	I
Fanqie	徒渾切
Baxter	dwon
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/duən/
Pan Wuyun	/duon/
Shao Rongfen	/duən/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/dwən/
Li Rong	/duən/
Wang Li	/duən/
Bernard Karlgren	/dʱuən/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	tún
Expected Cantonese Reflex	teon4

• Old Chinese

  (Baxter–Sagart): /*lˤu[n]/

  (Zhengzhang): /*duːn/

Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	豚
Reading #	2/2
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	tún
Middle Chinese	‹ dwon ›
Old Chinese	/*lˁu[n]/
English	young pig
Notes for Old Chinese notations in the Baxter–Sagart system: * Parentheses "()" indicate uncertain presence; * Square brackets "[]" indicate uncertain identity, e.g. *[t] as coda may in fact be *-t or *-p; * Angle brackets "<>" indicate infix; * Hyphen "-" indicates morpheme boundary; * Period "." indicates syllable boundary.

Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character	豚
Reading #	1/1
No.	12582
Phonetic component	豚
Rime group	文
Rime subdivision	2
Corresponding MC rime	屯
Old Chinese	/*duːn/

Definitions

(deprecated template usage) 豚

1. piglet; suckling pig
2. (by extension) pig
3. a surname

Synonyms

Dialectal synonyms of 小豬 (“piglet”) [map]

Variety	Location	Words edit
Classical Chinese		豚, 豯
Formal (Written Standard Chinese)		小豬
Mandarin	Beijing	小豬兒
	Taiwan	小豬
	Yantai (Muping)	小豬兒
	Jinan	小豬, 小豬兒, 豬崽兒, 豬崽子
	Luoyang	豬崽子
	Wanrong	豬娃
	Xi'an	豬娃兒, 豬娃子
	Yinchuan	豬娃子
	Lanzhou	豬娃子
	Xining	尕豬娃兒
	Ürümqi	豬娃子
	Wuhan	豬娃, 小豬娃, 小豬
	Huanggang	奶豬兒
	Chengdu	豬崽崽, 豬兒子, 小豬兒
	Guiyang	小豬崽, 小豬兒
	Liuzhou	豬崽
	Xuzhou	豬秧子
	Yangzhou	豬秧子
	Nanjing	豬秧子, 豬秧
	Singapore	小豬
Cantonese	Guangzhou	豬仔
	Hong Kong	豬仔
	Hong Kong (San Tin Weitou)	豬仔
	Hong Kong (Ting Kok)	豬仔
	Hong Kong (Tung Ping Chau)	豬仔
	Taishan	豬仔
	Dongguan	豬仔
	Kuala Lumpur (Guangfu)	豬仔
	Singapore (Guangfu)	豬仔
Gan	Nanchang	豬崽子
	Lichuan	豬崽兒
	Pingxiang	豬崽仔
Hakka	Yudu	豬子
	Miaoli (N. Sixian)	豬子
	Pingtung (Neipu; S. Sixian)	細豬仔, 豬子
	Hsinchu County (Zhudong; Hailu)	豬子, 乳豬仔
	Taichung (Dongshi; Dabu)	豬子, 細豬子
	Hsinchu County (Qionglin; Raoping)	豬子
	Yunlin (Lunbei; Zhao'an)	豬幺
	Hong Kong	豬仔
	Senai (Huiyang)	豬仔
Huizhou	Jixi	細豬
Jin	Taiyuan	豬娃子
	Xinzhou	豬娃子, 小豬子
Northern Min	Jian'ou	豨仔
Eastern Min	Fuzhou	豬囝
	Changle	豬囝
	Fuqing	豬囝
	Yongtai	豬囝
	Gutian	豬囝
	Fu'an	豬囝
	Ningde	豬囝
	Shouning	豬囝
	Zhouning	豬囝
	Fuding	豬囝
Southern Min	Xiamen	豬仔囝, 豬豚仔
	Quanzhou	豬仔
	Yongchun	豬囝
	Zhangzhou	豬仔囝, 豬仔嬰, 豬豚仔
	Kaohsiung	豬仔囝
	Yilan	豬仔囝
	Changhua (Lukang)	豬仔囝
	Taichung	豬仔囝
	Taichung (Wuqi)	豬仔囝
	Tainan	豬仔囝
	Taitung	豬仔囝
	Hsinchu	豬仔囝
	Penghu (Magong)	豬仔囝
	Penang (Hokkien)	豬囝
	Singapore (Hokkien)	豬囝
	Manila (Hokkien)	豬仔
	Shantou	豬囝
	Haifeng	豬仔
	Bangkok (Teochew)	豬囝
	Johor Bahru (Teochew)	豬囝
	Leizhou	豬囝
	Haikou	豬囝
Southern Pinghua	Nanning (Tingzi)	豬崽
Wu	Shanghai	小豬玀
	Shanghai (Chongming)	小豬農
	Suzhou	小豬
	Danyang	小豬
	Hangzhou	小肉豬
	Ningbo	小豬
	Wenzhou	豬兒
	Jinhua	小豬
Xiang	Changsha	豬崽子
	Loudi	豬崽唧

Etymology 2

For pronunciation and definitions of 豚 – see 䐁 (“vulva”). (This character is a variant form of 䐁).

Etymology 3

For pronunciation and definitions of 豚 – see 墩 (“mound”). (This character is an obsolete form of 墩).

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Japanese

Kanji

豚

(common “Jōyō” kanji)

Readings

• Go-on: どん (don)
• Kan-on: とん (ton, Jōyō)
• Kun: ぶた (buta, 豚, Jōyō)

Compounds

Compounds

• 猪(いの)豚(ぶた) (inobuta, “wild boar-pig hybrid”)
• 海豚(いるか) (iruka, “dolphin”)
• 黒(くろ)豚(ぶた) (kurobuta, “Berkshire pig”)
• 酢(す)豚(ぶた) (subuta, “sweet-and-sour pork”)
• 土(つち)豚(ぶた) (tsuchibuta, “aardvark”)
• 豚(とん)カツ (tonkatsu, “tonkatsu”)
• 豚(とん)血(けつ)下(した)地(じ) (tonketsushitaji)
• 豚(とん)犬(けん) (tonken, “pig and dog; fool; my child”)
• 豚(とん)骨(こつ) (tonkotsu, “tonkotsu”)
• 豚(とん)コレラ (tonkorera): hog cholera
• 豚(とん)脂(し) (tonshi, “lard”)
• 豚(とん)児(じ) (tonji, “piglet; my child”)
• 豚(とん)舎(しゃ) (tonsha, “pigsty (enclosure where pigs are kept)”)
• 豚(とん)汁(じる) (tonjiru), 豚(ぶた)汁(じる) (butajiru, “pork miso soup”)
• 豚(とん)足(そく) (tonsoku, “pig's trotters”)
• 河豚(ふぐ) (fugu), 河(か)豚(とん) (katon): blowfish

• 豚(ぶた)尾(お)猿(ざる) (butaozaru, “southern pig-tailed macaque”)
• 豚(ぶた)草(くさ) (butakusa, “common ragweed”)
• 豚(ぶた)小(ご)屋(や) (butagoya, “pigsty (enclosure where pigs are kept); pigsty (dirty or very untidy place)”)
• 豚(ぶた)しゃぶ (butashabu)
• 豚(ぶた)肉(にく) (butaniku), 豚(とん)肉(にく) (tonniku, “pork”)
• 豚(ぶた)に真(しん)珠(じゅ) (buta ni shinju, “pearls before swine”)
• 豚(ぶた)の饅(まん)頭(じゅう) (buta no manjū, “cyclamen”)
• 豚(ぶた)箱(ばこ) (butabako, “police cell”)
• 豚(ぶた)鼻(ばな)蝙蝠(こうもり) (butabanakōmori, “Kitti's hog-nosed bat”)
• 豚(ぶた)饅(まん) (butaman, “nikuman”)
• 豚(ぶた)もおだてりゃ木(き)に登(ぼ)る (buta mo odaterya ki ni boru)
• ミニ豚(ぶた) (minibuta, “minipig”)
• 焼(や)き豚(ぶた) (yakibuta, “char siu, a style of barbecue pork wherein the meat is trussed, marinated, skewered, and then roasted”)
• 養豚(ようとん) (yōton, “porciculture”)

Etymology

From ブー (bū, “oink”) + 太(ふと) (futo, “fat person”), by its resemblance.

The kanji is from Chinese 豚 (tún, “suckling pig”). Compare Japanese 猪 (inoshishi, “boar”) from Chinese 猪 (zhū, “pig”) and Japanese 猿 (saru, “monkey”) from Chinese 猿 (yuán, “ape”).

Alternative forms

Kanji in this term
豚
ぶた Grade: S
kun’yomi

• 豕

Noun

豚(ぶた) or 豚(ブタ) • (buta) 

1. pig; swine
2. (colloquial, poker) Synonym of ハイカード (hai kādo, “high card”); a no pair
   • 2000 July 7 [2000 May 17], Seimaru Amagi with Sato, Fumiya, “FILE(ファイル) 1(いち)　殺(さつ)人(じん)ポーカー　Unlucky Men in the Rain　〈問(もん)題(だい)編(へん)〉 [FILE 1: Murderous Poker: Unlucky Men in the Rain ‹Problem›]”, in 明智警視の優雅なる事件簿 [Superintendent Akechi Elegant Case Files], 3rd edition (fiction), Tokyo: Kodansha, →ISBN:

     赤(あか)菱(びし)さんのカードは８(はち)とＪ(ジャック)のツーペア‥‥三(みつ)矢(や)さんはＡ(エース)のスリーカード　雲(くも)間(ま)さんはＱ(クイーン)のワンペア　緑(みとり)川(かわ)さんは役なし(ブタ)‥‥

     Akabishi-san no kādo wa hachi to jakku no tsū-pea... Mitsuya-san wa ēsu no surī-kādo, Kumoma-san wa kuīn no wan-pea, Midorikawa-san wa buta...

     Akabishi-san’s hand would have a two pair, eights and jacks‥‥ Mitsuya-san’s a three of a kind, aces. Kumoma-san’s a one pair, queens. Midorikawa-san’s a high card...

See also

• アグー (agū)

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Korean

Hanja

豚 • (don) (hangeul 돈)

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Vietnamese

Han character

(deprecated template usage) 豚 (đồn)

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