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
- —魔獣legendary beast; magical beast
- —性獣sex maniac; sex fiend
- —幼獣young animal (esp. a mammal)
- —奇獣unusual beast; strange beast
- —獣畜wild and domestic animals; livestock
- —成獣adult animal
- —獣害damage caused by wild animals (e.g. to crops, trees)
- —国獣national animal
- —騎獣riding beast (other than a horse); cavalry beast
- —輓獣draft animal
- —妖獣monster; demon; magical beast
- —獣疫cattle plague; rinderpest
- —県獣prefectural animal (chosen as a symbol of the prefecture)
- —獣眼brown-irised eyes (esp. as a supposed trait of cruel people)
- —淫獣lustful beast; lascivious monster
- —一角獣unicorn; narwhal; qilin (Chinese unicorn)
- —獣医学veterinary medicine
- —野獣派Fauvism; the Fauvists
- —肉食獣carnivore; carnivorous animal
- —四神獣four divine beasts; guardian deities of the four cardinal points