The Chinese characters 狗 meaning is dog.

This character for dog: 狗 fittingly combines the dog radical: 犭 (or 犬) with the phonetic: 句. 句, meaning a sentence of words, suggests barking - a distinguishing characteristic of the dog. Counseling against the thoughtless ill-treatment of the underdog, the proverb warns: “In beating a dog, first find out who the owner is.”

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