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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: | 우u | |||
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: | 소so | |||
Stroke order animation | ||||
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Radical 93orradical 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.
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+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 |
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
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GF 0011-2009 Table of Indexing Chinese Character Components prescribes 201 principle indexing components and 100 associated indexing components (in brackets) used in Simplified Chinese. Not all associated indexing components are listed above. |