Measure word
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.
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Bronze script 戰國晚期 -
Clerical script 東漢 - See all 6 forms
Forms, sources and dates: the 字形演變 database of 小學堂, Academia Sinica, public domain (CC0).
Examples
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别像猪一样猛吃东西。
Don't eat like a pig.
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我叫你买牛肉,没叫你买猪肉。
I asked you to buy beef, not pork.
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我房间是个猪窝。
My room is a pigsty.
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牛肉通常比猪肉贵。
Beef is usually more expensive than pork.
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猪肉,牛肉,鸡蛋我都不吃。
I don't eat pork, beef or eggs.
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那不是猪,而是猴子。
It's not a pig; it's a monkey.