| 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 | ||
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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
Oracle bone script character
Bronze script character
Large seal script character
Small seal script character
Derived characters
| Strokes | Characters | 
|---|---|
| +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 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
- Fazzioli, Edoardo (1987). Chinese calligraphy : from pictograph to ideogram : the history of 214 essential Chinese/Japanese characters. calligraphy by Rebecca Hon Ko. New York: Abbeville Press. ISBN 0-89659-774-1.
 - Lunde, Ken (Jan 5, 2009). "Appendix J: Japanese Character Sets" (PDF). CJKV Information Processing: Chinese, Japanese, Korean & Vietnamese Computing (Second ed.). Sebastopol, Calif.: O'Reilly Media. ISBN 978-0-596-51447-1.
 
