畜
畜 — Livestock
livestock, domestic fowl and animals
On’yomiチク (chiku)
Kun’yomi—
Stroke order (10 strokes)
Watch the strokes draw themselves in the correct order — numbers mark where each stroke starts. Diagram from KanjiVG (CC BY-SA).
Common words using 畜
| Word | Reading | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 家畜 | かちく kachiku | domestic animals; livestock; cattle |
| 畜産 | ちくさん chikusan | animal husbandry; livestock industry |
| 畜生 | ちくしょう chikushou | damn it; damn; son of a bitch |
| 牧畜 | ぼくちく bokuchiku | stock-farming; livestock farming; cattle breeding |
| 人畜 | じんちく jinchiku | men and animals |
Study notes
畜 is a JLPT N2 kanji written with 10 strokes. It is taught at secondary-school level in Japan. Ranked #1824 of the 2,500 most frequent kanji in newspapers. On’yomi (音読み) are Chinese-derived readings mostly used in compound words; kun’yomi (訓読み) are native Japanese readings, with any highlighted part written in hiragana after the kanji (okurigana).
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