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  *豬* | 豬* | *豬
hog / pig / swine / CL: , 頭|头
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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
streptococcus suis (swine-borne disease)
to kill the pigs and slaughter the sheep (idiom)
lard
tropical pitcher plant (i.e. genus Nepenthes)
lit. time is a butcher's knife / fig. time marches on, relentless and unforgiving / nothing gold can stay
pork
live pig; pig on the hoof
suckling pig
piglet
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
lit. people fear getting famous like pigs fear fattening up (for the slaughter) / fig. fame has its price
(slang) craving to eat; urge to pig out
wild boar (Sus scrofa) / CL: 頭|头
swine influenza virus (SIV)
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 offal
Year 12, year of the Boar (e.g. 2007)
pork tripe
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
(slang) incompetent teammate, coworker etc
pig's tail (meat)
pork steak
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
to drown sb in a wicker basket, a form of 沉潭
lit. people fear getting famous like pigs fear fattening up (for the slaughter) / fig. fame has its price
poria mushroom (Polyporus umbellatus)
(coll.) feeder pig
pig-dog (intended as insult) / Schweinhund
pigsty (lit. and fig.)
boar
warthog
Bay of Pigs (Cuba)
pigsty (lit. and fig.)
Year of the Boar (e.g. 2007)
piglet / (old) exploited Chinese laborer tricked into working abroad
swine fever
pigsty
pig shed
truffle hog
piggery
pork fillet
pig head / (coll.) fool / jerk
swine vesicular disease (SVD)
a French-style bread, similar to a small baguette, commonly seen in Hong Kong and Macao
weeds or grass used to feed pigs
pork ribs / pork chop
boar taint, the taste or odor of sweat or urine in pork from uncastrated pigs
pigsty; pigpen
Chinese river dolphin, Lipotes vexillifer
cylindrical bamboo or wire frame used to constrain a pig during transport
dissolute companions / disreputable comrades
pig trotters
stupid swine / idiot
boar taint, the taste or odor of sweat or urine in pork from uncastrated pigs
Berkshire pig / Berkshire swine
porcupine
Chinese truffle
lit. just because Zhang the butcher dies, doesn't mean we'll have to eat pork mixed with bristles (idiom) / fig. nobody is indispensable
worse than a dog or pig / lower than low
pork bouillon powder / (neologism) (slang) a person who, like a pig, is fat and ugly and given to histrionics
(economics) (derog.) PIGS (Portugal, Italy, Greece and Spain) / PIIGS (Portugal, Italy, Ireland, Greece and Spain)
pork-leg rice – either a Guangdong (Chaozhou-Shantou) specialty of braised pork leg over rice or the Thai-Chinese dish "khao kha mu"
guinea pig
Zhu Bajie 豬八戒|猪八戒 or Zhu Wuneng, Pigsy or Pig (in Journey to the West)
(saying) a boneheaded teammate can do you more harm than the most formidable opponent
swine influenza / swine flu / influenza A (H1N1)
(derog.) white person; white pig
aardvark
Chinese alligator (Alligator sinensis)
pig streptococcus / streptococcus suis
see 刈包
feeder pig
(Tw) (neologism) pork containing ractopamine 萊克多巴胺|莱克多巴胺
pervert (esp. one who gropes women in public)
stir-fried pork with basil; pork phat kaphrao
live pig
swineherd
variant of 仔豬|仔猪


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