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Pork Pig Stroke 豚 トン ぶた 豚肉(ぶたにく S

Kanji
Onyomi トン
Kunyomi ぶた
English pork, pig
Examples 豚肉(ぶたにく): pork
JLPT Level 1
Jouyou Grade S
Frequency 1864
Components 肉: meat
豕: pig; hog; pig radical (no. 152)
Number of Strokes 11
Kanji Radical
Radical Number 152
Radical Strokes 7
Radical Reading いのこ・いのこへん・ぶた
Traditional Form (none)
Classification 会意 Compound Ideographic
Keyword pork
Koohii Story 1 Pork comes from the flesh of a sow.
Koohii Story 2 One possible pictograph for "sow" primitive: the top line is a feeding trough, the stroke touching it is the head, the long curved stroke is the body (with a little hook at the end for the curly tail), and the four remaining strokes are the sow´s legs.

Tags: jlpt.n1, grades, kanjifreq1501-2000, kanji_nature_animal

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