Translingual

Han character

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

Derived characters

• 蓄

References

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

Chinese

Glyph origin

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་བ ‎('khrung ba, “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

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. ^†Alternative form of 蓄 (xù, “to store up; to accumulate”).
7. ^†Alternative form of 慉 (xù, “to like”).
8. (dialectal, of a smell) to irritate one's respiratory organs
9. A surname​.

Compounds

Pronunciation 2

Definitions

畜

1. livestock; domesticated animal; farm animal

   家畜  ―  jiāchù  ―  domesticated animal

2. creature; beast

   畜生  ―  chùshēng  ―  beast, brute

Compounds

Japanese

Kanji

(common “Jōyō” kanji)

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Readings

• Goon: ちく (chiku), きく (kiku)
• Kan’on: ちく (chiku), きく (kiku)
• Kun: たくわえる (takuwaeru), やしなう (yashinau), かう (kau)

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

畜 (súc, húc, sục)

• lục súc 六畜

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Readings

• Nôm: súc

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