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豚 meaning and stroke order

tún

Suckling pig; to suckle

11 strokesRadical 豕
Strokes11
Pinyintún
ToneTone 2
Frequency#2,705
Printable worksheet

How to write 豚, stroke by stroke

11 strokes in order. Each box adds the next stroke in red. Write top to bottom and left to right, and finish enclosing strokes last.

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Meaning of 豚

Definitions from CC-CEDICT, grouped by pronunciation.

túnsecond tone (rising)
  1. suckling pig

How 豚 is built

Pictographic character. A pig 豕 suckling at its mother's teat ⺼.

component+shǐpig

Radical: 豕 (pig), shared by 14 characters on this site.

How to remember 豚

On the left is ⺼, the flesh or body part form, and on the right is 豕 (shǐ), an old picture of a pig. The hint pictures a little pig 豕 suckling at its mother's teat ⺼, so 豚 (tún) is a young suckling pig.

Today 豚 rarely appears alone. You mostly meet it inside animal names such as 海豚 (hǎitún, dolphin), 河豚 (hétún, puffer fish) and 豚鼠 (túnshǔ, guinea pig). Example: 我在海边看到了海豚。(Wǒ zài hǎibiān kàn dào le hǎitún.) I saw dolphins at the seaside.

Common mistake: Learners often confuse 豚 with 豕 (shǐ) or 家 (jiā), which share the pig shape. 豚 has ⺼ on the left. Another common slip is using third tone; 豚 is second tone, tún, so 海豚 is hǎitún.

Common words with 豚

Ordered by HSK level, then by how often they appear in everyday Chinese.

WordPinyinMeaningLevel
海豚hǎitúndolphin
河豚hétúnblowfish; puffer (Tetraodontidae)
豚鼠túnshǔguinea pig (Cavia porcellus)

豚 in example sentences

Real sentences from the Tatoeba project, with pinyin and English.

她tā可kě以yǐ像xiàng海hǎi豚tún一yī样yàng游yóu泳yǒng。
She can swim like a dolphin.
海hǎi豚tún是shì十shí分fēn聪cōng明míng的de动dòng物wù。
The dolphin is a very intelligent animal.
他tā能néng像xiàng海hǎi豚tún一yī样yàng游yóu泳yǒng。
He can swim like a dolphin.
汤tāng姆mǔ是shì海hǎi豚tún训xùn练liàn员yuán。
Tom is a dolphin trainer.
我wǒ弟dì弟di们men是shì海hǎi豚tún。
My brothers are dolphins.

Questions about 豚

How many strokes are in 豚?

豚 is written with 11 strokes. The diagrams on this page number every stroke in the order it is written, with the new stroke shown in red.

What does 豚 mean?

豚 (tún) means suckling pig; to suckle. A common word with it is 海豚 (hǎitún), meaning "dolphin".

How do you pronounce 豚?

豚 is pronounced tún, in the second tone (rising).

What is the radical of 豚?

The radical of 豚 is 豕, which carries the idea of "pig". Dictionaries list 豚 under this radical.

Why is a dolphin called a sea pig, 海豚, in Chinese?

The word literally combines 海 (sea) and 豚 (pig). Many languages compare dolphins and porpoises to pigs because of their rounded bodies, and Chinese does the same.

Is 豚 the normal word for pig?

No. In everyday Chinese a pig is 猪 (zhū). 豚 is a literary word for a young pig and now survives mainly in compound animal names.