猪
zhū · HSK 3
hog
🐖 sounds like 'zoo' — the pig is the star of the zoo
猪 (zhū) means pig. The pinyin zhū rhymes with English 'zoo', a handy sound-alike hook. The left side 犭 is the 'animal' radical, marking 猪 as a beast; the right side 者 just carries the sound.
猪 — dog radical 犭 + 者 zhě (phonetic)
猪 is a semantic-phonetic compound. The left side 犭 (dog/animal radical) signals an animal, while 者 supplies the sound, originally close to zhū. It replaced the older character 豕 (a pictograph of a pig) as the everyday word for the domestic pig.