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畜生

畜生

Chinese

 
to raise (animals); livestock; domesticated animal; domestic animal
 
to be born; to give birth; life; to grow; student; raw
simp. and trad.
(畜生) 		畜 生
alt. forms 畜牲 less common

Noun

畜生

  1. domestic animal; livestock; brute
  2. (offensive) beast, bugger, a contemptible person; brute

Descendants

Sino-Xenic (畜生):

Japanese

Kanji in this term
畜 生
ちく
Grade: S 		しょう
Grade: 1
on'yomi

Etymology

/tikusjau/ → /t͡ɕikusjoː/

From Middle Chinese 畜生, 畜牲 ‎(trhjuwH sræng, literally “livestock + livestock; sacrificial animal”), itself influenced by Sanskrit तिर्यग्योनि ‎(tiryagyoni, “animal creation”).[1]

Pronunciation

Noun

畜生 ‎(hiragana ちくしょう, romaji chikushō, historical hiragana ちくしやう)

  1. (Buddhism) beast: a generic term for animals, birds, fish and insects, as the reincarnated form of one who had bad karma in a previous life
  2. a derogative term for a person

Derived terms

  • 此 (こ)ん畜生 (ちくしょう) ‎(konchikushō)

Interjection

畜生 ‎(hiragana ちくしょう, romaji chikushō)

  1. an expression of strong anger: damn, dammit, ****

References

  1. ↑ 1988, 国語大辞典（新装版） (Kokugo Dai Jiten, Revised Edition) (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Shogakukan
  2. ↑ 2006, 大辞林 (Daijirin), Third Edition (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Sanseidō, ISBN 4-385-13905-9

Etymology

From 畜 (xù, “domestic animal, livestock”) + 生 (shēng, “(牲) domestic animal”) Variant: 畜牲. First attested in Han Feizi (circa 2nd century BC). The expletive sense was attested in the Book of Sui (7th century AD). Influenced, through Buddhism, by Sanskrit तिर्यग्योनि ‎(tiryagyoni, “animal creation”) and Pali tiracchānayoni ‎(“the realm of the brute creation”) during the Six Dynasties times, as this word was used as a translation of the Sanskrit and Pali terms. Compare 牲畜.

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