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乳

🇹🇼🇭🇰🇨🇳🇯🇵🇰🇷

breast

HSK 6 N2

Human →Body →Body Parts

rǔ

ニュウ

ちち、ち

유

Depicts a mother holding (爫) a child (子) breastfeeding it.

Components

爫 claw (top)+ 子 child+ ◎ characterless component =

乳 breast

爫 Iconic component

zhǎo claw (top)

radical 87

爫 is a component form of 爪. Depicts a hand.

子 Iconic component

zi child

offspring, child

◎ Iconic component

characterless component

Depicts a mother breastfeeding.

Notes

Historical Evolution

Oracle (~1250-1000 BC)

Oracle

(~1250-1000 BC)

Seal Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal

Shuowen (~100 AD)

Clerical Qin dynasty (221-206 BC)

Clerical

Qin dynasty (221-206 BC)

Clerical Qin dynasty (221-206 BC)

Clerical

Qin dynasty (221-206 BC)

Clerical Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)

Clerical

Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)

乳

Regular

Modern

Chinese

乳 [rǔ]

breast; milk

Japanese

乳ちち、ち同音

noun

milk
breast
loop
decorative bump (on a hanging bell)

Example Sentences

🇯🇵 (1)

うちの牛は全く乳が出ない。

Our cow doesn't give us any milk.

Japanese Names

乳ちち

Chichi surname

乳みるく

Miruku female given name

CHINESE WORDS (148)

乳房 [rǔfáng] #5,635

乳头 [rǔtóu] #5,933

乳头 [rǔtóu] #5,933

乳酪 [rǔlào] #7,965

乳腺癌 [rǔxiàn'ái] #15,272

母乳 [mǔrǔ] #16,701

乳腺 [rǔxiàn] #46,804

乳糖 [rǔtáng] #15,451

哺乳动物 [bǔrǔdòngwù] #17,751

哺乳动物 [bǔrǔdòngwù] #17,751

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JAPANESE WORDS (200)

⭐ 牛乳 [ぎゅうにゅう] #6,033

⭐ 乳首 [ちくび] #8,318

⭐ 乳房 [ちぶさ] #8,359

巨乳 [きょにゅう] #11,637

乳母 [うば] #16,117

貧乳 [ひんにゅう] #24,157

乳白色 [にゅうはくしょく] #26,047

⭐ 母乳 [ぼにゅう] #26,482

哺乳類 [ほにゅうるい] #34,550

乳輪 [にゅうりん] #39,570

areola mammae (circular area around nipple)

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KOREAN WORDS (17)

dry milk; powdered milk

nursing; suckling

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