豦
qú

a wild boar

Phonosemantic compound. 豕 represents the meaning and 虍 represents the sound.

Components

虍
虍 Sound component
hū tiger

虍 is a component form of 虎.

豕
豕 Meaning component
shǐ pig

Character Evolution

Bronze form
Bronze Mid Western Zhou ~900 BC
Seal form
Seal Shuowen ~100 AD
Clerical form
Clerical Western Han 202 BC-9 AD
Regular Modern

Component uses

Sound (2 of 6 verified)

遽噱醵璩劇據

Historical Pronunciations

Old Chinese
Zhengzhangkas
ɡa

說文解字

《說文》：“豦，鬬相丮不解也。从豕、虍。豕虍之鬬不解也。讀若蘮蒘草之蘮。司馬相如說豦，封豕之屬。一曰虎兩足舉。”

Sources

Character origin
漢語多功能字庫
Readings & variants
Unicode
Historical pronunciations
Zhengzhang Shangfang
Historical images
Academia Sinica
Etymology
Shuowen Jiezi (說文解字)