漢字Kanji · in Action & Movement
飼: domesticate, raise
Also: keep, feed
JLPT N113 strokesGrade 5Your ink: 白 Not met
飠 carries the meaning · 司 gives the sound
13 strokes
Two readings, and the words that use each
シshi · on'yomi · in compounds
- 飼料しりょうfodder, feed
- 飼育するしいくするbreed, raise, rear
かうkau · kun'yomi · on its own
- 飼うかうkeep as a pet
- 飼い犬かいいぬpet dog
- 羊飼いひつじかいshepherd, shepherdess
- 放し飼いはなしがいpasturing, grazing
Words: Kanji alive, CC BY 4.0.
成り立ち
Where it comes from
Origin · sourced
Phono-semantic compound (形聲)食 (meaning) + 司 (sound)
Source: Wiktionary, 飼 (rev. 92202182), CC BY-SA 4.0
Memory story · made up to help you remember
“Food (食) +司 (direct/control). The act of "controlling" and providing "food" for animals—to breed or "raise" livestock.”
繋がり
Connections
Ink shades, lightest to darkest: 白 Not met, 淡 Met, 中 Learning, 濃 Familiar, 印 Mastered
司
Also built on director (司)
飼 takes the 司 family's reading, シ (shi).
Easy to confuse
The difference, side by side飼 domesticate · 司
vs飽 sated · 包In ChineseSimplified 饲 · traditional, as in Japanese · sì
Japan keeps the traditional form 飼; mainland China simplifies it to 饲.
- Simplified
- 饲 mainland China, Singapore
- Traditional
- 飼 Taiwan, Hong Kong
Pinyin sì 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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