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Chinese character radical From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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.
牛 | ||
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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: | 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 | ||
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.
Strokes | Characters |
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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 with the meaning "bull". In Japan, it is one of the Kyōiku kanji which is taught in the second grade of elementary school.[1]
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