じゅう
Meanings
Noun
1. beast; brute; animal
Pitch accent
じゅ
Used in vocabulary (53 in total)
fierce animal; beast of prey; big game
veterinarian; veterinary surgeon; vet
(fictional) fusion of human and animal; therianthrope; furry; human beast
legendary beast; magical beast
(in Chinese mythology) beast which descends from the sky with a thunderbolt
wild beast; wild animal; brute
humans and animals; humans and beasts; beast in human form
all kinds of animals
carnivore; carnivorous animal
half-human and half-beast
harmful animal
animal or carnal desires; lust
stone image of an animal; stone figures of animals
beasts; mammals
divine beast
sacred beast
sacred beast
rare (or peculiar) animal
unicorn; narwhal; qilin (Chinese unicorn)
brutality; animal nature
young animal (esp. mammal)
quadruped; four-footed animal
animal hair
veterinarian; veterinary surgeon; vet
animal flesh
bestiality; sodomy
bestial; beastly; beast-like; brutal
sex maniac; sex fiend
unusual beast; strange beast
animal bones
auspicious beast (in Chinese mythology, e.g. the qilin)
veterinary medicine
small animal (mammal)
brutal heart
animals that can legally be hunted; game animals
animal beneficial to humans
four divine beasts; guardian deities of the four cardinal points
four beasts (tiger, leopard, black bear, and brown bear); four gods said to rule over the four directions
game animal
pack animal
brutal or bestial act
Theria (mammalian subclass)
Eutheria (mammalian infraclass)
Eutheria (mammalian infraclass)
Therapsida (order of advanced synapsids)
Theriodontia; theriodonts
Afrotheria (superorder of mammals of African origin)
Examples (3 in total)
I howled like a beast.
The primitive man was frightened at the sight of a savage beast.
As the lion is king of beasts, so is the eagle king of birds.