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Kanji Detail for 牧 - "pasture, shepherd, raise"
牧
- Meaning
牧 means "pasture, shepherd, raise."
Pasture - Grazing land for animals.
Shepherd - One who tends livestock.
Raise - To breed animals.
- Dictionary Citations
The meaning above is based on the following sources:
KANJIDIC2 A comprehensive Japanese-English kanji dictionary
breed; care for; shepherd; feed; pasture
Unihan Unicode Han Database for CJK characters
tend cattle, shepherd
CC-CEDICT A Chinese-English dictionary
surname Mu
Make Me a Hanzi Open-source Chinese character data
shepherd; to tend cattle
XSZD Xuéshēng Zìdiǎn (學生字典) - Student's Dictionary
One who tends cattle. All herding of livestock is called 牧. (Mencius) "If someone receives another's cattle and sheep and herds them for him." | The outskirts are called 牧. Seen in (Erya). | To nurture. 卑以自牧 appears in (Book of Changes), meaning to humble oneself and respect others, the virtue of modesty. | An official title. Anciently 牧伯 referred to the governors of the Nine Provinces. Later, prefects were also called 牧. Prefects of directly administered prefectures were called 直牧.
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