豚 (tún): suckling pig
豚 (tún) is a Chinese character meaning “suckling pig.” Classified as HSK Level 7-9 (HSK 3.0 Standard, CLEC 2022), it is composed of ⺼ (structural) and 豕 (structural). It ranks #3119 in character frequency (SUBTLEX-CH corpus).
Etymologically pictographic, 豚 a pig 豕 suckling at its mother's teat ⺼. Its radical form 豕 (pig) appears in many related characters such as 象 (xiàng, elephant), 豪 (háo, grand), 豫 (yù, happy).
Definitions
- suckling pig
Etymology & Origin
pictographicA pig 豕 suckling at its mother's teat ⺼
Decomposition: ⿰⺼豕 (layout: left-right)
Stroke Order
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Words & Compounds
Common Compounds
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 海豚noun | hǎi tún | dolphin |
| 河豚noun | hé tún | blowfish |
| 豚鼠noun | tún shǔ | guinea pig (Cavia porcellus) |
| 土豚noun | tǔ tún | aardvark |
| 海豚音noun | hǎi tún yīn | (singing) (coll.) whistle note |
| 河豚毒素noun | hé tún dú sù | tetrodotoxin (TTX) |
| 海豚座proper-noun | hǎi tún zuò | Delphinus (constellation) |
| 海豚馆 | hǎi tún guǎn | dolphinarium |
| 瓶鼻海豚 | píng bí hǎi tún | bottle-nosed dolphin (Tursiops truncatus) |
| 宽吻海豚noun | kuān wěn hǎi tún | bottle-nosed dolphin (Tursiops truncatus) |
| 水豚noun | shuǐ tún | capybara |
| 鼠海豚noun | shǔ hǎi tún | porpoise |
| 白𬶨豚 | bái jì tún | Chinese river dolphin (Lipotes vexillifer) |
| 白鳍豚noun | bái qí tún | see 白鱀豚|白𬶨豚 |
| 江豚noun | jiāng tún | river dolphin |
豚 appears in 16 compound words: 6 as the first character, 69 as the last, and 25 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 豚 in natural Chinese text, ranked by NPMI (Normalized Pointwise Mutual Information) — a statistical measure of association strength.
Example Sentences
这个豚字在古汉语中有不同的含义。
zhè gè tún zì zài gǔ hàn yǔ zhōng yǒu bù tóng de hán yì .
In Classical Chinese, the character "豚" had different meanings.
与海豚畅泳圆心愿 区文诗兴奋嗌神奇
yǔ hǎi tún chàng yǒng yuán xīn yuàn qū wén shī xīng fèn 嗌 shén qí
Swimming with dolphins fulfills a lifelong dream; Qu Wenshi excitedly exclaims, "It's magical!"
科技1分钟:海豚管道(Dolphin Pipeline)
kē jì 1 fēn zhōng : hǎi tún guǎn dào ( D o l p h i n P i p e l i n e )
Tech in a Minute: Dolphin Pipeline
乔山的跨国管理学 刚柔并济的海豚式领导
qiáo shān de kuà guó guǎn lǐ xué gāng róu bìng jì de hǎi tún shì lǐng dǎo
Qiao Shan's Transnational Management: The Dolphin-Style Leadership That Combines Firmness and Flexibility
濒绝动物 鹿港外海喜见白海豚
bīn jué dòng wù lù gǎng wài hǎi xǐ jiàn bái hǎi tún
Endangered animals are happy to see white dolphins off the coast of Lukang
Character Family
豕 Radical Family — Characters sharing the pig radical
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