猪

猪 (radical 94, 犬+8, 11 strokes, cangjie input 大竹十大日 (KHJKA), composition ⿰犭者)

• KangXi: page 714, character 26
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 20511
• Dae Jaweon: page 1126, character 24
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 2, page 1351, character 9
• Unihan data for U+732A

Phono-semantic compound (形聲, OC *ta) : semantic 犭 (“dog”) + phonetic 者 (OC *tjaːʔ).

(“Jinmeiyō” kanji used for names)

1. wild boar

• Go-on: ちょ (cho)
• Kan-on: ちょ (cho)
• Kun: い (i, 猪)^{←ゐ (wi, historical)}; いのしし (inoshishi, 猪)^{←ゐのしし (winosisi, historical)}
• Nanori: しし (shishi)

Compound of 猪 (i, “pig, boar”, see below) +‎ の (no, possessive particle) +‎ 獣 (shishi, “beast”, archaic).[1][2]

• Kun’yomi
  • (Tokyo) いのし​し [ìnóshíꜜshì] (Nakadaka – [3])[3][4]
  • IPA^(key): [ino̞ɕiɕi]

猪 (hiragana いのしし, katakana イノシシ, rōmaji inoshishi, historical hiragana ゐのしし, historical katakana ヰノシシ)

1. a wild boar, Sus scrofa

   Synonyms: 野荒らし (noarashi), 野猪 (noshishi)

As with many terms that name organisms, this term is often spelled in katakana, especially in biological contexts, as イノシシ.

猪 (hiragana いのしし, rōmaji Inoshishi, historical hiragana ゐのしし)

1. a surname

/wi/ → /i/

From Old Japanese, also used in the Man'yōshū (759 CE) as 借音 (shakuon) kana for ⟨wi⟩.

Onomatopoeic of the sound of a wild boar.

• 豬

• Kun’yomi
  • IPA^(key): [i]

猪 (hiragana い, rōmaji i, historical hiragana ゐ)

1. a pig or wild boar

From 肉 (shishi, “meat, flesh”).[3][2]

• 獣
• (deer meat): 鹿

• (Irregular reading)
  • (Tokyo) し​し [shíꜜshì] (Atamadaka – [1])[3][4]
  • IPA^(key): [ɕiɕi]

猪 (hiragana しし, rōmaji shishi)

1. collective term for beasts used as food
2. (by extension) a wild boar, Sus scrofa

猪 (hiragana しし, rōmaji Shishi)

1. a surname

• 豚 (ブタ) (buta, “pig”)