人じん獣じゅう

noun

humans and animals; humans and beasts

Refers to both humans and animals collectively, often in contexts like zoonotic diseases or coexistence.

• 人じん獣じゅう共きょう通つう感かん染せん症しょうについての研けん究きゅうが進すすんでいる。

  Research on zoonotic diseases is advancing.

noun

beast in human form

Figurative expression for a person who acts like a beast; often used in literary or rhetorical contexts. Related to the idiom 人面獣心.

See also: 人面獣心

• 彼かれの残ざん忍にんな行こう為いはまさに人じん獣じゅうと呼よぶにふさわしい。

  His brutal actions are truly worthy of being called a beast in human form.