豚

Han character

 * 1) small pig, suckling pig
 * 2) used in names for dolphins and porpoises in combination with other characters, such as in 海豚 (dolphin).

Glyph origin
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Etymology 1
Probably related to and.

Outside of Chinese, it is probably related to 🇨🇬.

Vovin speculates a link to 🇨🇬 and 🇨🇬.

Definitions

 * 1) piglet; suckling pig
 * 2)  pig

Compounds

 * : hog cholera
 * , : blowfish
 * : pork donburi
 * : hog cholera
 * , : blowfish
 * : pork donburi
 * : hog cholera
 * , : blowfish
 * : pork donburi
 * : hog cholera
 * , : blowfish
 * : pork donburi
 * , : blowfish
 * : pork donburi
 * , : blowfish
 * : pork donburi
 * : pork donburi
 * : pork donburi
 * : pork donburi
 * : pork donburi
 * : pork donburi
 * : pork donburi
 * : pork donburi
 * : pork donburi
 * : pork donburi
 * : pork donburi
 * : pork donburi
 * : pork donburi
 * : pork donburi
 * : pork donburi
 * : pork donburi

Etymology
First attested in the mid-, some time in the late 1480s.

Derivation ultimately.

Some sources list possible theories:


 * A shift from
 * The vowel shift and voicing required to go from futo to buta seem problematic, considering Japanese sound shift patterns.
 * Cognate with 🇨🇬.
 * An onomatopoeia from the sound the animal makes, realized in Japanese as
 * The final -ta remains unexplained.
 * Some combination of the two above
 * A shift from
 * Attestable online, but not found in Japanese etymological resources. Difficult to judge provenance or timing.
 * A borrowing from Korean or Mongolian
 * Neither Korean nor 🇨🇬 show any phonological resemblance to buta, ruling out these possibilities.

The word butakal appears in several languages of the Philippines with a sense of, suggesting a possible source. However, any connection with an Austronesian language is only speculation.

The kanji is from. Compare 🇨🇬 from 🇨🇬 and 🇨🇬 from 🇨🇬.

Noun

 * 1)  pig; swine
 * 2)   a fat person, an unattractive woman
 * 3)  pork
 * 4)  a wild boar
 * 5)  a hand of cards worth zero (such as 8–9–3 totalling 20, which is equivalent to zero), in Baccarat-like three-card games such as おいちょかぶ
 * 6) * 1723, [Takeda Izumo] and  [Matsuda Bunkōdō], [Ōtō no Miya Asahi no Yoroi]
 * : a no pair, a hand without even a pair
 * : a no pair, a hand without even a pair
 * : a no pair, a hand without even a pair

Etymology
From.

Etymology
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From. Cognate with 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬.

Likely not related to.

Noun

 * 1) a pig, hog, swine