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Keyword
beast
Info
FrequencyTop 500-600
Type
Jōyō 
?
Shinjitai ?
KankenLevel 4
Heisig2083
Old form獸
Readings
Composed of
𭕄
tiny hairs
田
rice field
一
one
口
mouth
犬
dog
Mnemonic

A dog is sniffing a bunch of tiny hairs left by something in a nearby rice field. The smell alerts him that something's up and he runs to investigate. He finds a creature with one enormous mouth big enough to eat a person whole. What a beast!

Used in vocabulary (103 in total)
beast; brute; animal
legendary beast; magical beast
(fictional) fusion of human and animal; therianthrope; furry; human beast
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Examples (22 in total)
As the lion is king of beasts, so is the eagle king of birds.
I howled like a beast.
The wild beasts all gather.
Tom said that there was a monster under his bed.
John is a veterinarian.
I thought Tom was a veterinarian.
Tom's childhood dream was to become a veterinarian.
When he was a child, Tom dreamt of being a vet.
Tom is a veterinarian.
Tom wanted to be a veterinarian.
Mary is a veterinarian.
My brother is a veterinarian.
My brother is a vet.
She grew up to be a veterinarian.
I want to become a veterinarian.
I have a friend whose father is a veterinarian.
Then the wild beasts start wanting to go crazy.
The lion is called the king of animals.
The primitive man was frightened at the sight of a savage beast.
My daughter is studying veterinary medicine at university as she is intending to become a veterinarian in the future.
That's because there weren't any large carnivores in New Guinea.
Hemingway enjoyed big game hunting in Africa.