also: どじん
Rare term for a person who slaughters animals for meat. The more common modern word is 屠殺業者 or simply 肉屋 for a butcher shop worker.
See also: 屠者
In old documents, there are records of people working as slaughterers.
Archaic sense; historically could refer to a cook, possibly one who also handled slaughtering. Not used in modern Japanese.
The word 屠人 could also refer to a cook in ancient times.
Rare kanji compound; the reading とじん is the primary reading. The alternate reading どじん is also recorded but even less common.
Alternate reading; very rare. Prefer とじん.
Compound of 屠 (to slaughter) and 人 (person). The exact historical derivation is uncertain; the word is now rare and largely replaced by modern terms.