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畜

xù

HSK 6 Character

What 畜 means

1. to raise (animals)

Other readings

畜 is 多音字 — it is read more than one way, and the reading changes the meaning.

• chùlivestock; domesticated animal; domestic animal

Example sentences

• 家畜饿死了。
  The cattle starved to death.
• 汤姆是个畜生。
  Tom is an animal.
• 你这个畜牲，给我滚开！
  Nǐ zhège chùshēng, gěi wǒ gǔnkāi!
  You filthy beast, get out of here!
• 监狱生活比做畜牲还不如。
  Jiānyù shēnghuó bǐzuò chùshēng háibùrú.
  Life in prison is worse than the life of an animal.
• 图阿雷格人该把他们的牲畜转移到山谷去了。
  It's time for the Tuaregs to transfer their herds to the valley.
• 因为他们的财物过多，不能同居共处：他们寄居的地方也容不下他们，因为他们的牲畜甚多。
  For they were exceeding rich, and could not dwell together: neither was the land in which they sojourned able to bear them, for the multitude of their flocks.

Words starting with 畜

• 畜牧xù mùto raise animals
• 畜生chù shengdomestic animal; brute; bastard
• 畜牧业xù mù yèanimal husbandry; stock raising; livestock raising
• 畜力chù lìanimal power; animal-drawn (plow etc)
• 畜栏chù lánpen for livestock
• 畜肥chù féianimal manure
• 畜类chù lèidomestic animal
• 畜产品xù chǎn pǐndomesticated animal products
• 畜牲chù shēngvariant of 畜生

Words containing 畜

• 牲畜shēng chùfarm animal; livestock
• 家畜jiā chùdomestic animal; livestock; cattle
• 仔畜zǐ chùnewborn animal
• 公畜gōng chùstud; male animal kept to breed offspring
• 力畜lì chùdraft animal; beast of burden
• 役畜yì chùdraft animal; beast of burden
• 牧畜mù xùraising livestock; animal husbandry
• 社畜shè chù(colloquial) corporate drone (orthographic borrowing from Japanese 社畜 "shachiku")
• 种畜zhǒng chùbreeding stock (of animal species); stud
• 种公畜zhǒng gōng chùstud; male breeding stock (of animal species)
• 人畜共患症rén chù gòng huàn zhèngzoonosis
• 耕畜gēng chùdraft animal
• 孽畜niè chùevil creature (multipurpose curse); evil domestic animal
• 禽畜qín chùpoultry and livestock
• 驮畜tuó chùpack animal
• 六畜liù chùsix domestic animals, namely: pig, cow, sheep, horse, chicken and dog

Characters that look like 畜

Easy to confuse on sight. Compare them side by side once and the pair stops costing you.

• 商shāngcommerce; merchant; dealer
• 害hàito do harm to; to cause trouble to; harm
• 菌jūngerm; bacteria; fungus
• 雀què(bound form) small bird; sparrow; also pr. qiǎo
• 菖chāngsee 菖蒲
• 堇jǐnclay; old variant of 仅; violet (plant)

Sounds the same

Read xù, tone for tone, but written differently.

• 续to continue; to replenish
• 序(bound form) order; sequence; (bound form) introductory; initial; preface
• 叙to narrate; to chat
• 绪beginnings; clues; mental state
• 蓄to store up; to grow (e.g. a beard); to entertain (ideas)
• 酗drunk
• 恤anxiety; sympathy; to sympathize
• 旭dawn; rising sun
• 絮cotton wadding; fig. padding; long-winded
• 婿son-in-law; husband
• 煦balmy; nicely warm; cozy
• 蓿clover; lucerne; Taiwan pr. sù