牲畜
shēng chù · HSK 7
livestock
🐄🐖 牲 sacrificial-beast + 畜 raised-animal = the farm animals you keep
畜 means to raise or rear animals; 牲 once named a beast offered in sacrifice. Together 牲畜 covers the domesticated animals kept on a farm: cattle, pigs, sheep. Sound cue: shēng chù starts like shing-choo, two short barnyard syllables.