Keyword
pig
Info
FrequencyTop 1600-1700
Type
Jōyō 
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KankenLevel 3
Heisig577
Readings
ぶた
(80%)
とん
(17%)
Composed of
moon
wild pig
Mnemonic

A normal pig is essentially the same as a wild pig, it's just locked up on a prison-like farm and the only way it can see the moon is through its tiny cell window. Poor piggy.

Used in vocabulary (137 in total)
pig (Sus scrofa domesticus); pork; fatso; fatty
pig; pork
pork miso soup; miso soup with pork and vegetables
female pig; sow; fat woman; perverted woman
sweet-and-sour pork
dish made with pork belly and bones, simmered with miso, sake, vegetables, etc. (from Kagoshima)
puffer fish; blow fish; fugu; globefish; swellfish
female pig; sow; fat woman; perverted woman
Berkshire pig
police cell; lockup
tonkatsu; breaded pork cutlet
pig farm; hog farm; piggery
boneless pork rib; boned pork rib
tonkotsu ramen; pork bone broth ramen
rice covered with pork and vegetables
boneless pork rib; boned pork rib
roast pork; baseball fan
dolphin (or other small toothed whales, such as porpoises, belugas, etc.)
steamed bun with minced pork filling
casting pearls before swine
black Iberian pig
pork shabu-shabu
pork loin; pork roast
pig's snout; nose resembling a pig's snout; snorting like a pig (while laughing)
white pig; white person
pig-keeping; pig farming
fatty pork (from cheek, neck or shoulder)
roast pork; baseball fan
lard; pig fat
pigpen; pigsty
hog cholera; swine fever
pig's snout; nose resembling a pig's snout
steamed bun with minced pork filling
African swine fever; AFS
salted pork; ham
flattery will motivate anyone; flattery can do wonders; (lit.) even a pig will climb up a tree if flattered
tonkatsu sauce; sauce made from ketchup, Worcester, soy, mirin, mustard, etc.
aardvark (Orycteropus afer)
sire pig; boar; brood sow
boneless pork rib; boned pork rib
my child; my son; piglet
wild boar and domestic pig hybrid
anime freak; person overly interested in female anime and video game characters
boneless pork rib; boned pork rib
miso mixed with pork; pork miso
Japanese pufferfish (Takifugu rubripes); Japanese puffer; tiger puffer
minced pork; ground pork
harbor porpoise (Phocoena phocoena); harbour porpoise; common porpoise
pork with rice
tonkatsu; breaded pork cutlet
boneless pork rib; boned pork rib
boneless pork rib; boned pork rib
fatty pork (from cheek, neck or shoulder)
tonkatsu sauce; sauce made from ketchup, Worcester, soy, mirin, mustard, etc.
ragweed (Ambrosia artemisiifolia)
bottlenose dolphin; bottlenosed dolphin (Tursiops truncatus)
beluga (Delphinapterus leucas); white whale; beluga whale
Chinese puffer (Takifugu chinensis)
flattery will motivate anyone; flattery can do wonders; (lit.) even a pig will climb up a tree if flattered
bluespotted boxfish (Ostracion immaculatus); boxfish (any fish of family Ostraciidae); trunkfish
yakiton; grilled pork on skewers
Pacific white-sided dolphin (Lagenorhynchus obliquidens)
miso mixed with pork; pork miso
dolphin hunting; dolphin fishing
purple puffer (Takifugu porphyreus)
Takifugu snyderi (species of pufferfish)
Takifugu snyderi (species of pufferfish)
anime freak; person overly interested in female anime and video game characters
cat's-ear (Hypochoeris radicata); false dandelion
grass puffer (Takifugu niphobles)
pork with rice
short-beaked common dolphin (Delphinus delphis)
pig manure
pig manure
miniature pig; micropig
Commerson's dolphin (Cephalorhynchus commersonii); skunk dolphin; panda dolphin
honey is sweet, but the bee stings; (lit.) I want to eat fugu, (but) I value my life
Delphinus (constellation); the Dolphin
starry toado (pufferfish, Arothron firmamentum)
dullard; halfwit; my child; pig and dog
red-eyed puffer (Takifugu chrysops)
Okinawan pig breed
soccer fan
freshwater puffer fish
you cannot excuse a bad deed with a petty act of benevolence; (lit.) steal a pig and give the feet for alms
swine flu; swine influenza
hog cholera; swine fever
Dall's porpoise (Phocoenoides dalli)
striped dolphin (Stenella coeruleoalba)
basketfish (Kentrocapros aculeatus)
map puffer (Arothron mappa)
yellowfin puffer (Takifugu xanthopterus)
green spotted puffer (Tetraodon nigroviridis)
pig-tailed macaque (Macaca nemestrina)
Kitti's hog-nosed bat (Craseonycteris thonglongyai); bumblebee bat; Old World hog-nosed bat
Kitti's hog-nosed bat (Craseonycteris thonglongyai); bumblebee bat; Old World hog-nosed bat
longhorn cowfish (Lactoria cornuta)
pear puffer (Takifugu vermicularis)
spectacled porpoise (Phocoena dioptrica)
vaquita (Phocoena sinus); cochito; gulf porpoise
baiji (Lipotes vexillifer); Chinese river dolphin; Yangtze dolphin
Chinese white dolphin (Sousa chinensis chinensis)
Burmeister's porpoise (Phocoena spinipinnis)
Chilean dolphin (Cephalorhynchus eutropia); black dolphin
Haviside's dolphin (Cephalorhynchus heavisidii)
Hector's dolphin (Cephalorhynchus hectori)
Fraser's dolphin (Lagenodelphis hosei); Sarawak dolphin
Atlantic white-sided dolphin (Lagenorhynchus acutus)
white-beaked dolphin (Lagenorhynchus albirostris)
Peale's dolphin (Lagenorhynchus australis)
dusky dolphin (Lagenorhynchus obscurus)
tucuxi (Sotalia fluviatilis)
pantropical spotted dolphin (Stenella attenuata)
Clymene dolphin (Stenella clymene)
Atlantic spotted dolphin (Stenella frontalis)
spinner dolphin (Stenella longirostris)
rough-toothed dolphin (Steno bredanensis)
Indo-Pacific bottlenose dolphin (Tursiops aduncus)
finepatterned puffer (Takifugu poecilonotus)
panther puffer (Takifugu pardalis)
slender sunfish (Ranzania laevis); oblong sunfish
white-spotted pufferfish (Torquigener albomaculosus)
Examples (23 in total)
Why are you with a pig?
You're a lying pig.
Even if pigs were to fly in the air, I would believe her.