Formal or literary term describing animals, people, or actions that are violently aggressive and intimidating.
Fierce beasts live in that forest.
His ferocious personality made those around him tremble.
Standard kanji spelling for 'fierce, ferocious'.
Variant using 兇 (kyō, 'evil, wicked'); less common than 凶猛.
Compound of 凶 (kyō, 'evil, bad') and 猛 (mō, 'fierce, violent'). The spelling 兇猛 uses the variant 兇, which carries a similar meaning of wickedness.