HSK 6 · Nature

牲畜 shēngchù “livestock” in Chinese

Same in Traditional

What 牲畜 means

  1. livestock
  2. farm animal

How to say 牲畜

  • Pitch chart of the first tone: stays high and level, 5 to 5 on the five-level scale牲shēng1st tone, high and level
  • Pitch chart of the fourth tone: falls from high to low, 5 to 1 on the five-level scale畜chù4th tone, falling

牲畜 in a sentence

  1. 图阿雷格人该把他们的牲畜转移到山谷去了。

    Tú'āléigé rén gāi bǎ tāmen de shēngchù zhuǎnyí dào shāngǔ qù le.

    It’s time for the Tuareg to move their herds to the valley.

    Sentence #13573399 from Tatoeba · converted to simplified characters · translation adapted

How 牲畜 is built

Each colour is one part of the character. Parts repeat across thousands of characters, so learning them makes new words easier. See all 214 in our radicals chart.

The character 牲 (shēng) with each of its parts in a different colour
牲shēngdomestic animal
  • 牛cow · niúMeaning part
  • 生life · shēngSound part

牛 hints at the meaning (cow); 生 (shēng) hints at the sound. Compare it with shēng.

The character 畜 (chù) with each of its parts in a different colour
畜chùlivestock
  • 玄profound · xuánSound part
  • 田field · tiánMeaning part

田 hints at the meaning (field); 玄 (xuán) hints at the sound. Compare it with chù.

How to write 牲畜

牲 9 strokes · 畜 10 strokes

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牲畜 (shēngchù) stroke order chart: each stroke of the characters in the order you write them
Stroke order chart for 牲畜 (shēngchù). Red marks the next stroke, so you can copy it onto paper one step at a time.

Words related to 牲畜

Words with 牲

牺牲xīshēng · to sacrifice

Words with 畜

畜牧xùmù · animal husbandry

More words: Nature & Environment

气压qìyā · air pressure犬quǎn · dog融化rónghuà · to melt梢shāo · tip (of a branch)生存shēngcún · to survive盛开shèngkāi · to be in full bloom生态shēngtài · ecology生物shēngwù · living thing

FAQs

牲畜 (shēngchù) means “livestock” or “farm animal”. It is an HSK 6 word.
Say it shēngchù: shēng with a 1st tone, then chù with a 4th tone. Press Listen at the top of this page to hear it, or Slowly to hear each tone clearly.
Yes. 牲畜 is written the same way in Simplified and Traditional characters.
Add a Chinese (Simplified) pinyin keyboard to your phone or computer, type shengchu with no tone marks or spaces, then choose 牲畜 from the suggestions. Typing shengchu into this dictionary’s search box finds it too.
牲畜 is an HSK 6 word in the HSK 2.0 word lists.

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Sources: meaning and pinyin checked by a native Mandarin teacher against the official HSK lists. Extra meanings from CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0). Example sentences from Tatoeba (CC BY 2.0 FR). Character parts and stroke order from Make Me a Hanzi.