Kanji1 / 16
獣 kanji
animal, beast
- JLPT level
- N1 (unofficial)
- First appears in
- N1 vocabulary
- Strokes
- 16
- School grade
- Secondary school
On readings
ジュウ
Kun readings
けものけだもの
Variant forms
獸Words with 獣
LevelWord & meaningActions
- —雷獣beast which descends from the sky with a thunderbolt (in Chinese mythology)
- —霊獣sacred beast
- —害獣harmful animal; pest; vermin
- —聖獣sacred beast
- —獣毛animal hair
- —獣人(fictional) fusion of human and animal; therianthrope; furry; human beast
- —四獣four beasts (tiger, leopard, black bear, and brown bear); four gods said to rule over the four directions
- —神獣divine beast
- —幻獣cryptid (unidentified mysterious creature); mythical beast
- —瑞獣auspicious beast (in Chinese mythology, e.g. the qilin)
- —猟獣game animal
- —獣骨animal bones
- —石獣stone image of an animal; stone figures of animals
- —獣炭animal charcoal; carbo animalis
- —駄獣pack animal
- —半獣half-human and half-beast
- —獣的bestial; beastly; beast-like; brutal
- —益獣animal beneficial to humans
- —人獣humans and animals; humans and beasts; beast in human form
- —小獣small animal (mammal)