畜

畜 (Kangxi radical 102, 田+5, 10 strokes, cangjie input 卜女戈田 (YVIW), four-corner 0060₃, composition ⿱玄田)

• 傗 㗜 㜅 慉 搐 滀 槒 稸 䙒 𧏷 𨃕
• 鄐 蓄

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 761, character 12
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 21814
• Dae Jaweon: page 1171, character 5
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 4, page 2538, character 4
• Unihan data for U+755C

Historical forms of the character 畜
Shang	Western Zhou	Warring States	Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han)
Oracle bone script	Bronze inscriptions	Chu slip and silk script	Small seal script

Pictogram (象形) : 玄 (“rope tying the bag of feed”) + 田 (“bag of feed”) – a bag of feed, hence livestock.

Alternatively, 玄 (“rope”) + 田 or 囿 (“pen; fold; enclosure”) – tying animals and raising them in the enclosure.

“To raise; to rear (an animal)” (*–k) > “domesticated animal; livestock” (*–k–s, exopassive: “what has been raised”). The various pronunciations in Old and Middle Chinese have been confused or merged in many extant dialects.

Etymology unknown. Probably from Proto-Sino-Tibetan *hu (“to be born; birth; to rear”), and thus may be related to 好 (OC *qʰuːʔ, *qʰuːs, “good; to like”) (Matisoff). Alternatively, from Proto-Sino-Tibetan *kruŋ (“to live; alive; to be born; to give birth; green; sprout”), whence Tibetan འཁྲུང ('khrung, “to be born; to arise; to sprout”) (Schuessler, 2007).

Zhengzhang (2015) relates Tibetan ལུག (lug, “sheep”) to this word; this would be parallel to 羊 (OC *laŋ, “sheep”) ?~ 養 (OC *laŋʔ, *laŋs, “to rear”) (Sagart, 1999). In Sagart (1999), 畜 is related to 育 (OC *luɡ, “to nourish”) and 鞠 (OC *kuɡ, *kʰuɡ, *ɡuɡ, “to rear”).

畜

1. to nourish; to raise; to rear

   • 鷄子畜到變禾必　猪子半斤畜四兩 [Sixian Hakka, trad.]
     鸡子畜到变禾必　猪子半斤畜四两 [Sixian Hakka, simp.]

     From: 1934, 最新解勸盤賭歌

     kiê-é hiuk to pien vò-pit, chû-é pan kîn hiuk si liông [Pha̍k-fa-sṳ]

     The chickens were raised into sparrows, and the pigs were raised from half a catty to four taels

2. to bring up; to nurture; to foster; to cultivate
3. ^† to submit; to obey; to comply
4. ^† to tolerate; to allow
5. ^† to keep; to house; to collect
6. ^† Alternative form of 蓄 (xù, “to store up; to accumulate”)
7. ^† Alternative form of 慉 (“to like”)
8. (dialectal, of a smell) to irritate one's respiratory organs
9. a surname

畜

1. livestock; domesticated animal; farm animal

   家畜  ―  jiāchù  ―  domesticated animal

2. creature; beast

   畜生  ―  chùshēng  ―  beast, brute

• “畜”, in 漢語多功能字庫 (Multi-function Chinese Character Database)‎, 香港中文大學 (the Chinese University of Hong Kong), 2014–

(common “Jōyō” kanji)

1. livestock
2. domestic fowl and animals

• Go-on: ちく (chiku, Jōyō); きく (kiku)
• Kan-on: ちく (chiku, Jōyō); きく (kiku)
• Kun: たくわえる (takuwaeru, 畜える); やしなう (yashinau, 畜う); かう (kau, 畜う)

畜 • (chuk, hyuk) (hangeul 축, 휵, revised chuk, hyuk, McCune–Reischauer ch'uk, hyuk, Yale chwuk, hyuk)

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畜: Hán Nôm readings: súc, húc, sục

畜

1. chữ Hán form of súc (“livestock”).

• Thiều Chửu : Hán Việt Tự Điển Hà Nội 1942
• Trần Văn Chánh: Từ Điển Hán Việt NXB Trẻ, Ho Chi Minh Ville, 1999
• Vũ Văn Kính: Đại Tự Điển Chữ Nôm, NXB Văn Nghệ, Ho Chi Minh Ville, 1999