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
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.
The pig is growing fat.
Is it safe to eat a pig's eyeball?
How much is this pork a kilo?
Is this beef or pork?
Tom doesn't eat pork, does he?
I eat pork with a fork.
Mary doesn't eat pork, does she?
Beef is usually more expensive than pork.
Pork is usually cheaper than beef.
I'm the only one in my family who likes pork more than beef.
As for me, I like chicken better than pork.
I can't eat pork.
I cannot tell the difference between pork and beef.
Is eating pork a sin?
I'm a Christian, but I don't eat pork.
I am Christian but I don't eat pork.
That's why ostrich meat costs more than twice as much as beef and pork.
I don't know how to make sweet and sour pork.
This room looks like a pigsty.
Are you concerned about swine flu?