in English

Measure word

  • kǒu mouth; classifier for things with mouths (people, domestic animals, cannons, wells etc); classifier for bites or... attested
  • tóu head; hair style; the top; end; beginning or end; a stub; remnant; chief; boss; side; aspect; first; leading... attested

How it used to be written

These are the forms of 豬, the traditional character: 猪 is a twentieth-century simplification, found in no ancient corpus.

Forms, sources and dates: the 字形演變 database of 小學堂, Academia Sinica, public domain (CC0).

Examples

  • 别像猪一样猛吃东西。

    Don't eat like a pig.

  • 我叫你买牛肉,没叫你买猪肉。

    I asked you to buy beef, not pork.

  • 我房间是个猪窝。

    My room is a pigsty.

  • 牛肉通常比猪肉贵。

    Beef is usually more expensive than pork.

  • 猪肉,牛肉,鸡蛋我都不吃。

    I don't eat pork, beef or eggs.

  • 那不是猪,而是猴子。

    It's not a pig; it's a monkey.

All example sentences with 猪

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