U+8C5A "豚" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character
U+8C5A "豚" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a logogram used in Chinese, Japanese, and Korean writing systems, where it primarily represents the meaning of "pig" or "swine" and specifically refers to a piglet or a domesticated pig. In Chinese, it is pronounced as "tún" and is often found in compound words related to pigs or pork, while in Japanese it is read as "buta" and is a common term for pigs, appearing in words like "butaniku" meaning pork. This character is composed of the radical for meat or flesh (月) on the left, which hints at its association with animal products, and the phonetic component "豕" (shǐ), which itself is an ancient pictograph of a pig, reinforcing the character's zoological and culinary connotations across East Asian languages.