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  *豬* | 豬* | *豬
hog / pig / swine / CL: , 頭|头
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pork
pig head / (coll.) fool / jerk
swine fever
pork ribs / pork chop
live pig
wild boar (Sus scrofa) / CL: 頭|头
suckling pig
piglet / (old) exploited Chinese laborer tricked into working abroad
lard
pork tripe
Zhu Bajie, character in Journey to the West 西遊記|西游记, with pig-like characteristics and armed with a muckrake / Pigsy in Arthur Waley's translation
pig trotters
to play the wolf in sheep's clothing; to disguise oneself as sth harmless in order to lull one's target into letting their guard down
pigsty (lit. and fig.)
piggery
stupid swine / idiot
dissolute companions / disreputable comrades
porcupine
tropical pitcher plant (i.e. genus Nepenthes)
pig's tail (meat)
lit. people fear getting famous like pigs fear fattening up (for the slaughter) / fig. fame has its price
pig shed
see 刈包
pigsty; pigpen
worse than a dog or pig / lower than low
piglet
poria mushroom (Polyporus umbellatus)
swineherd
weeds or grass used to feed pigs
lit. people fear getting famous like pigs fear fattening up (for the slaughter) / fig. fame has its price
Chinese alligator (Alligator sinensis)
live pig; pig on the hoof
pigsty (lit. and fig.)
cylindrical bamboo or wire frame used to constrain a pig during transport
Year of the Boar (e.g. 2007)
Berkshire pig / Berkshire swine
pork bouillon powder / (neologism) (slang) a person who, like a pig, is fat and ugly and given to histrionics
(coll.) feeder pig
pork fillet
pig-dog (intended as insult) / Schweinhund
(slang) incompetent teammate, coworker etc
guinea pig
Year 12, year of the Boar (e.g. 2007)
(economics) (derog.) PIGS (Portugal, Italy, Greece and Spain) / PIIGS (Portugal, Italy, Ireland, Greece and Spain)
warthog
swine influenza / swine flu / influenza A (H1N1)
Bay of Pigs (Cuba)
stir-fried pork with basil; pork phat kaphrao
to kill the pigs and slaughter the sheep (idiom)
pig's blood cake, popular as a snack in Taiwan, made from glutinous rice and pig's blood, typically coated in peanut powder and coriander and served with dipping sauces
boar
aardvark
pork steak
(Tw) (neologism) pork containing ractopamine 萊克多巴胺|莱克多巴胺
pig offal
a French-style bread, similar to a small baguette, commonly seen in Hong Kong and Macao
(saying) a boneheaded teammate can do you more harm than the most formidable opponent
boar taint, the taste or odor of sweat or urine in pork from uncastrated pigs
variant of 仔豬|仔猪
lit. time is a butcher's knife / fig. time marches on, relentless and unforgiving / nothing gold can stay
truffle hog
feeder pig
lit. just because Zhang the butcher dies, doesn't mean we'll have to eat pork mixed with bristles (idiom) / fig. nobody is indispensable
lit. a dead pig doesn't fear scalding water (saying) / fig. a person who has nothing more to lose will go to any lengths, regardless of the consequences
pig butchering scam (where the scammer builds trust with the victim over time, "fattening them up," before ultimately "slaughtering" them by taking their money); (esp.) romance scam
Chinese river dolphin, Lipotes vexillifer
to drown sb in a wicker basket, a form of 沉潭
(derog.) white person; white pig
Zhu Bajie 豬八戒|猪八戒 or Zhu Wuneng, Pigsy or Pig (in Journey to the West)
Chinese truffle
swine vesicular disease (SVD)
swine influenza virus (SIV)
pigsty
boar taint, the taste or odor of sweat or urine in pork from uncastrated pigs
pig streptococcus / streptococcus suis
streptococcus suis (swine-borne disease)
pervert (esp. one who gropes women in public)


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