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漢字Kanji · in Nature & Elements

畜: livestock, domestic fowl and animals

JLPT N210 strokesSecondary schoolYour ink: 白 Not met

玄 and 田 carry the meaning

10 strokes
  • Oracle bone · Shang
  • Today

Oracle bone: Wikimedia Commons, public domain. Today’s form: KanjiVG, CC BY-SA 3.0.

One reading, and the words that use it

チクchiku · on'yomi · in compounds

  • 畜舎ちくしゃcattle shed, barn
  • 畜生ちくしょうbeast, brute, Damn!
  • 畜産業ちくさんぎょうstock raising, stockbreeding
  • 家畜かちくlivestock, cattle
  • 牧畜ぼくちくstock-farming
  • 畜産ちくさんanimal husbandry; livestock industry

Words: Kanji alive, CC BY 4.0 · JMdict, EDRDG, CC BY-SA 4.0.

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Where it comes from

Origin · sourced

Pictogram (象形)玄 rope tying the bag of feed + 田 bag of feed

A bag of feed, hence livestock.

Source: Wiktionary, 畜 (rev. 93450632), CC BY-SA 4.0

Memory story · made up to help you remember

“Dark (玄) + field (田). It originally referred to animals being kept in a "dark" or "hidden" field away from the main road, eventually meaning livestock in general.”
From the 玄 mysterious story
繋がり
Ink shades, lightest to darkest: 白 Not met, 淡 Met, 中 Learning, 濃 Familiar, 印 Mastered
玄

Also built on mysterious (玄)

All 4
田

Also built on rice paddy (田)

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畜 gives its sound to

The family reading is チク (chiku). Sound parts: KanjiVG.

Also read チク

4 kanji share this on'yomi

Easy to confuse

The difference, side by side
畜 livestock · 玄 + 田
vs畝 furrow · 亩 + 久
畜 has 玄 + 田 where 畝 has 亩 + 久.
In ChineseSame character in simplified and traditional · chù

Same form: 畜 is written the same way in mainland China (simplified) and in Taiwan and Hong Kong (traditional).

Simplified
畜 mainland China, Singapore
Traditional
畜 Taiwan, Hong Kong

Pinyin chù most common reading

Forms and pinyin: Unicode Unihan database (Unicode License v3). Pinyin lists the most common reading, not every reading.

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