犬 Home·Characters·犬 Character · Nature 犬 いぬ inu dog Composition 1234 Origin Pictogram of a dog standing on its legs, muzzle raised. Proverbs carrying this character 195 犬も歩けば棒に当たる Even a walking dog runs into something. Related characters 器vessel, utensil然so, thus独alone狭narrow猫cat猶still, hesitate猿monkey, ape類kind, category亀turtle光light兎hare, rabbit叢thicket, clump咲to bloom土earth, soil