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
- —獣王記Altered Beast (1989 Sega Arcade game, ported to Mega Drive (Genesis))
- —人面獣心beast in human form
- —百獣の王king of beasts (i.e. lion)
- —怪獣映画monster film
- —猛獣使いwild-animal tamer
- —猛獣狩りbig-game hunting
- —奥山放獣relocation of wild animals to a remote location
- —半人半獣half-human, half-beast; therianthropic
- —原獣亜綱Prototheria
- —異獣亜綱Allotheria (subclass of Mesozoic mammals)
- —後獣下綱Metatheria (mammalian infraclass)
- —真獣下綱Eutheria (mammalian infraclass)
- —正獣下綱Eutheria (mammalian infraclass)
- —野獣主義Fauvism
- —狩猟鳥獣animals that can legally be hunted; game animals
- —獣医学部department of veterinary medicine; school of veterinary medicine
- —鳥獣戯画Scrolls of Frolicking Animals (set of 12th and 13th century picture scrolls)
- —鳥獣保護区wildlife sanctuary; protection area for birds and wild animals
- —北方真獣類Boreoeutheria (clade of placental mammals); Boreotheria; boreoeutherians
- —凸凹猛獣狩Africa Scream (film)