畜 (chù): livestock
畜 (chù) is a Chinese character meaning “livestock.” Classified as HSK Level 7-9 (HSK 3.0 Standard, CLEC 2022), it is composed of 玄 (phonetic) and 田 (semantic). It ranks #1999 in character frequency (SUBTLEX-CH corpus).
Etymologically derived, 畜 farm. Its radical form 田 (field) appears in many related characters such as 电 (diàn, lightning), 男 (nán, male), 由 (yóu, to follow).
Definitions
- livestock
Etymology & Origin
Stroke Order
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Words & Compounds
Common Compounds
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 畜生noun | chù sheng | domestic animal |
| 牲畜noun | shēng chù | farm animal |
| 家畜noun | jiā chù | domestic animal |
| 畜牧业noun | xù mù yè | animal husbandry |
| 畜牧verb | xù mù | to raise animals |
| 牧畜verb | mù xù | raising livestock |
| 种公畜 | zhǒng gōng chù | stud |
| 畜产品noun | xù chǎn pǐn | domesticated animal products |
| 人畜共患症 | rén chù gòng huàn zhèng | zoonosis |
| 种畜 | zhǒng chù | breeding stock (of animal species) |
| 畜力noun | chù lì | animal power |
| 力畜 | lì chù | draft animal |
| 公畜noun | gōng chù | stud |
| 畜类 | chù lèi | domestic animal |
| 社畜noun | shè chù | (coll.) corporate drone (orthographic borrowing from Japanese 社畜 "shachiku") |
畜 appears in 25 compound words: 36 as the first character, 60 as the last, and 4 in a middle position. Compound statistics computed from SUBTLEX-CH and HSK 3.0 vocabulary data.
Strongest Collocations
Characters that most frequently co-occur with 畜 in natural Chinese text, ranked by NPMI (Normalized Pointwise Mutual Information) — a statistical measure of association strength.
Example Sentences
这个农场饲养了很多牲畜，主要是牛和羊。
Zhè gè nóngchǎng sìyǎng le hěn duō shēngchù, zhǔyào shì niú hé yáng.
This farm raises a lot of livestock, mainly cattle and sheep.
南非拟将口蹄疫疫苗纳入牲畜常规接种计划
nán fēi nǐ jiāng kǒu 蹄 yì yì miáo nà rù shēng chù cháng guī jiē zhǒng jì huá
South Africa plans to include foot-and-mouth disease vaccine in its routine livestock vaccination program
大盘商有补助买猪?彰化畜牧业盼毛猪交易均价回稳
dà pán shāng yǒu bǔ zhù mǎi zhū ? zhāng huà chù mù yè pàn máo zhū jiāo yì jūn jià huí wěn
Do large-scale traders have subsidies to buy pigs? Changhua Animal Husbandry hopes that the average price of hairy pig transactions will stabilize
社畜解脱了?陆专家曝10年内惊人转折 周休5...
shè chù jiě tuō le ? lù zhuān jiā pù 1 0 nián nèi jīng rén zhuǎn zhé zhōu xiū 5 . . .
Social animals are liberated? Lu experts revealed an amazing turning point in 10 years, weekly rest 5...
...成外傭被剝削 苦主被毆兼扣薪 泣訴待遇「畜生不如」
. . . chéng wài 傭 bèi 剝 xiāo kǔ zhǔ bèi 毆 jiān kòu xīn qì 訴 dài yù chù shēng bù rú
Foreign Domestic Workers Exploited: Victims Beaten and Wages Withheld, Weeping Over Treatment "Worse Than Animals"
落馬洲7日5狗疑中毒亡 列虐畜跟進狗屍將化驗
luò 馬 zhōu rì gǒu yí zhōng dú wáng liè nüè chù gēn 進 gǒu 屍 將 huà 驗
Lok Ma Chau 7 days 5 dogs suspected of poisoning deaths listed as animal cruelty follow up dog carcasses will be examined
监狱生活比做畜牲还不如。
Jiānyù shēnghuó bǐ zuò chùshēng háibùrú.
Life in prison is worse than the life of an animal.
你这个畜牲，给我滚开！
Nǐ zhège chùshēng, gěi wǒ gǔnkāi!
You filthy beast, get out of here!
图阿雷格人该把他们的牲畜转移到山谷去了。
Tú'āléigé rén gāi bǎ tāmen de shēngchù zhuǎnyí dào shāngǔ qù le.
It's time for the Tuaregs to transfer their herds to the valley.
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