noun

Meanings

  1. 1 a wild boar; two animals locked in a fight (archaic)

Examples

Wǒmen zuówǎn kàn le yì chū jīngcǎi de xìjù.
We watched a wonderful play last night.

Tips

history
('a wild boar / locked in combat') is archaic and not used independently in modern Chinese. It survives as the phonetic in (drama / intense), (to rely on / according to), and (to club together for a feast).

Components

radical
shǐ
pig; boar
The 'pig' element is the wild boar itself and is the indexing radical for .
semantic
tiger stripes
The 'tiger' top stands for a fierce beast; in it pictures a savage animal grappling with the boar below.

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