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Kanji Detail for 牛 - "cow, ox"

牛

  • Meaning

    牛 means "cow, ox." Also associated with livestock.

    1. Cow - A domesticated bovine; cattle.

    2. Ox - A draft animal; a bull.

    3. Zodiac - The second of twelve zodiac signs.

  • Words using 牛

    • 牛乳 ぎゅうにゅう Listen (cow's) milk
    • 牛肉 ぎゅうにく Listen beef
    • 牛歩 ぎゅうほ Listen snail's pace; slow progress
    • 和牛 わぎゅう Listen Wagyu (any of four breeds of Japanese cattle); Wagyu beef
    • 牛丼 ぎゅうどん Listen gyudon; rice covered with sliced beef, usu. with fried onion

  • Four-character idioms with 牛

    • 汗牛充棟 かんぎゅうじゅうとう Listen (having, there being) a great number of books
    • 牛頭馬頭 ごずめず Listen horse-headed and ox-headed demons in the Buddhist hell
    • 牛飲馬食 ぎゅういんばしょく Listen heavy eating and drinking; gorging and swilling; drinking like a cow and eating like a horse
    • 牛鬼蛇神 ぎゅうきだしん Listen wicked and perverse; weird and incoherent
    • 矯角殺牛 きょうかくさつぎゅう Listen trying to straighten the horns of a bull, and killing it in the process; trying to correct a small defect and ruining the whole thing; the cure is worse than the disease
    • 蝸牛角上 かぎゅうかくじょう Listen trifling (fight); (a conflict) between small countries

  • Tattoo check: 牛

    • Verified meaning: cow, ox
    • Official Jōyō kanji — a standard character every Japanese reader recognises
    • Used in real Japanese given names (read うし, うしはま, うしほり, うしぼり)
    • Also carries these associations: livestock

    A single kanji rarely maps one-to-one onto an English word. Read the meanings and associations above as a set — a character that fits the dictionary definition can still carry a connotation you did not intend.

  • Name readings of 牛

    Given names 牛(ぎゅうてつ)Listen

    Surnames 牛(うし)Listen 牛(うしはま)Listen 牛(うしほり)Listen 牛(うしぼり)Listen 牛(うしまつ)Listen 牛(ぎゅう)Listen 牛(ぎゆう)Listen 牛(にう)Listen 牛(にゅう)Listen

  • Dictionary Citations

    The meaning above is based on the following sources:

    KANJIDIC2 A comprehensive Japanese-English kanji dictionary

    cow

    Unihan Unicode Han Database for CJK characters

    cow, ox, bull; Kangxi radical 93; 9th lunar mansion, determinative star β Capricorni (Dabih)

    CC-CEDICT A Chinese-English dictionary

    surname Niu

    Make Me a Hanzi Open-source Chinese character data

    ox, cow, bull

    XSZD Xuéshēng Zìdiǎn (學生字典) - Student's Dictionary

    The largest domestic animal. Body is fat and heavy. Nature is docile and strong. Hence farmers raise many to help with plowing. Its meat and milk are both nutritious. Many varieties with different fur colors. The water buffalo that can swim only exists in China and India. | A star name. One of the Twenty-Eight Mansions.

  • Onyomi

    tip

    gyuu(ギュウ) ギュウ

  • Kunyomi

    tip

    ushi(うし) うし

  • Strokes

    tip

    4 strokes

  • Radical

    tip

    牛 牜 (ushi・ushihen)

  • Related Keywords

    cow ox livestock bull cattle bovine beef calf dairy milk herd pasture horn steer heifer farm grazing leather meat

Sentences including 牛

  • There isn't any milk in the glass.

  • Milk makes us strong.

  • Beef , please.

  • The milk has gone bad.

  • Children should drink milk every day.

  • Do you have some milk?

  • Milk goes bad quickly in hot weather.

  • The milk has gone bad.

  • She can't do without milk.

  • There's only a little milk left.

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