豚（ぶた、buta）
- pig

The Japanese word 豚 (豚, buta) means "pig" or "swine." It refers to the domesticated animal raised for its meat and other products. This word is commonly used in everyday conversation and in various contexts, including farming, food, and describing someone's character (often humorously).

⚫︎豚肉 Translation: pork ⚫︎子豚 Translation: piglet ⚫︎豚小屋 Translation: pigsty

⚫︎You use 豚 when talking about pigs. ⚫︎It can be used in a literal sense to refer to the animal itself. ⚫︎It can also be used figuratively, often to describe someone who is greedy, dirty, or gluttonous (similar to how "pig" is used in English).

⚫︎The word 豚 is primarily written with the kanji 豚. ⚫︎The reading is always ぶた in hiragana. ⚫︎There are no variations in the okurigana.

⚫︎While 豚 is the most common word for pig, there aren't many direct synonyms that replace it entirely in everyday usage. ⚫︎However, in a more formal or scientific context, you might see words like 猪(いのしし, inoshishi) which means "wild boar" (the ancestor of the domestic 豚).

⚫︎There is no single direct antonym for 豚 because it refers to a specific animal. ⚫︎You could consider words related to other animals, such as 牛(うし, ushi) meaning "cow" or 鶏(とり, tori) meaning "chicken" if you are comparing them as livestock.

このレストランでは美味しい豚肉料理が食べられます。 ・Translation: You can eat delicious pork dishes at this restaurant. ・Explanation: This sentence uses 豚肉(pork) to describe a type of food.

彼は豚のようにたくさん食べるね。 ・Translation: He eats a lot like a pig. ・Explanation: This sentence uses 豚 figuratively to describe someone's eating habits, suggesting they eat a lot.

The kanji 豚 is a combination of the "moon" radical (月, tsuki) on the left side, representing flesh or meat, and 豕 (i, or buta), meaning pig.