豚 tún suckling pig
怎么记住“豚”: 月 meat + 豕 pig = suckling pig. At the wedding feast the girl refuses the roast meat once she hears the pig was just a tiny suckling pig.
部件结构
会意 · Meaning + meaning
Two or more parts whose meanings together make the new meaning.
豚 = 月 meat + 豕 pig
- 月 meat meaning
- 豕 pig meaning
At the wedding feast the girl refuses the roast meat once she hears the pig was just a tiny suckling pig.
How it came to be
It is built from meat and a pig, and both parts give the meaning.
用法
- A pig/piglet (literary), but you mostly meet it in 海豚 (hǎitún): dolphin, and 河豚 (hétún): pufferfish/blowfish (a prized but poisonous delicacy). The 'piglet' sense is archaic; the animal compounds are the live usage.