畜 means “livestock, domestic animals”

ちく · chiku

Also: domestic fowl and animals

On'yomi (Chinese reading)

チク

JLPT N2 · Taught in secondary school · 10 strokes

The story

Picture dark (玄) shapes grazing on a field (田) at dusk: the farm's animals. 家畜 are livestock, 畜産 is stock farming, and 畜生, a Buddhist word for beasts, is the ちくしょう shouted in frustration all through manga and anime.

Used in 家畜 (kachiku, livestock), 畜産 (chikusan, livestock farming), and 牧畜 (bokuchiku, stock raising)

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Readings from KANJIDIC2, © EDRDG, CC BY-SA.