牛
Radical 93 (U+2F5C)
牛 (U+725B) "cow"
Pronunciations
Pinyin:niú
Bopomofo:ㄋㄧㄡˊ
Gwoyeu Romatzyh:niou
Wade–Giles:niu2
Cantonese Yale:ngàuh
Jyutping:ngau4
Pe̍h-ōe-jī:giû
Japanese Kana:ギュウ gyū / ゴ go (on'yomi)
うし ushi (kun'yomi)
Sino-Korean:우 u
Names
Chinese name(s):(牜) 牛字旁 niúzìpáng
(Bottom) 牛字底 niúzìdǐ
Japanese name(s):牛/うし ushi
(牜) 牛偏/うしへん ushihen
Hangul:소 so
Stroke order animation
Stroke order of the left component form 牜

Radical 93 or radical cow (牛部) meaning "cow" or "bulls" is one of the 34 Kangxi radicals (214 radicals total) composed of 4 strokes.

When appearing at the left side of a Chinese character, it transforms into 牜, with the last two strokes switching their order and the last stroke becoming a rising stroke rather than a horizontal stroke.

In the Kangxi Dictionary, there are 233 characters (out of 49,030) to be found under this radical.

牛 is also the 79th indexing component in the Table of Indexing Chinese Character Components predominantly adopted by Simplified Chinese dictionaries published in mainland China, with 牜 being its associated indexing component.

Evolution

Derived characters

StrokesCharacters
+0牛 牜Component
+2牝 牞 牟
+3牠 牡 牢 牣 牤
+4牥 牦SC (=氂 -> 毛) 牧 牨 物 牪 牫 牬
+5牭 牮 牯 牰 牱 牲 牳 牴 牵SC (=牽)
+6牶 牷 牸 特 牺SC (=犧)
+7牻 牼 牽 牾 牿 犁
+8犀 犂 (=犁) 犃 犄 犅 犆 犇 犈 犉 犊SC (=犢) 犋
+9犌 犍 犎 犏 犐 犑
+10犒 犓 犔 犕 犖 犗
+11犘 犙 犚 犛 犟TC variant
+12犜 犝 犞 犟SC variant
+13犠JP (=犧)
+15犡 犢 犣 犤 犥 犦
+16犧 犨
+18犩
+20犪
+23犫

Sinogram

As an independent sinogram 牛 is a Chinese character. It is one of the Kyōiku kanji or Kanji taught in elementary school in Japan.[1] It is a second grade kanji.[1] It means bull

References

  1. 1 2 "The Kyoiku Kanji (教育漢字) - Kanshudo". www.kanshudo.com. Archived from the original on March 24, 2022. Retrieved 2023-05-06.

Literature

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