牛

牛 U+725B, 牛 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-725B ← 牚 [U+725A] CJK Unified Ideographs 牜 → [U+725C]

⽜ U+2F5C, ⽜ KANGXI RADICAL COW ← ⽛ [U+2F5B] Kangxi Radicals ⽝ → [U+2F5D]

Stroke order

Stroke order

• 牜 (U+725C) - used as a left radical component (not a standalone character)
• 𠂒 (U+20092) - sometimes used as a top component

牛 (Kangxi radical 93, 牛+0, 4 strokes, cangjie input 竹手 (HQ), four-corner 2500₀, composition ⿻𠂉十)

1. Kangxi radical #93, ⽜.
2. Shuowen Jiezi radical №19

• Appendix:Chinese radical/牛
• 件, 吽, 汼, 㭌, 犇, 䋅, 鈝, 䭽, 䵓, 吿, 䒜, 㽚, 窂, 荦, 制

• 先, 告

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 697, character 1
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 19922
• Dae Jaweon: page 1108, character 16
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 3, page 1800, character 1
• Unihan data for U+725B

simp. and trad.		牛
alternative forms		𠂒

Pictogram (象形) of a bull's head, with two horns and two ears. Perhaps unrelated to 告; unrelated to 先.

From Proto-Sino-Tibetan *ŋwə.

"awesome"

Clipping of 牛屄 (niúbī), which is a vulgar word.

牛

1. bovine, e.g. cow, bull, ox, buffalo, bison, yak (Classifier: 頭／头 m c mb md; 條／条 m g h x; 隻／只 m c g mn w x)
2. beef

   乾炒牛河／干炒牛河  ―  gānchǎo niúhé  ―  beef chow fun

   蛋牛治 [Cantonese]  ―  daan^6-2 ngau^4-2 zi⁶ [Jyutping]  ―  beef and egg sandwich

3. stubborn; pigheaded
4. (colloquial) arrogant
5. (Mainland China, Mandarin, slang) awesome; powerful

   牛屄  ―  niúbī  ―  [vulgar] awesome

   牛人  ―  niúrén  ―  an awesome person

6. (～宿) (Chinese astronomy) Ox (one of Twenty-Eight Mansions)
7. (physics) short for 牛頓／牛顿 (niúdùn, “newton”)
8. (Hong Kong Cantonese, computing) short for 火牛 (“transformer”) (Classifier: 隻／只 c)
9. (Hakka) naughty
   • 2018, 客語能力認證基本詞彙·初級（四縣腔）‎^[1], archived from the original on 9 November 2022, page 61:

     仰恁牛，拿啊着就搞壞忒。 [Sixian Hakka, trad.]
     仰恁牛，拿啊着就搞坏忒。 [Sixian Hakka, simp.]

     Ngióng án ngiù, nâ-a-tó chhiu káu fái-thet. [Pha̍k-fa-sṳ]

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

10. a surname

    牛僧孺  ―  Niú Sēngrú  ―  Niu Sengru (Tang politician)

• (bovine):

• (beef): 牛肉 (niúròu)
• (awesome):

• (transformer):

• (naughty):

• Wutunhua: nek

• (Chinese zodiac signs) (~年) 鼠 (shǔ), 牛 (niú), 虎 (hǔ), 兔 (tù), 龍／龙 (lóng), 蛇 (shé), 馬／马 (mǎ), 羊 (yáng), 猴 (hóu), 雞／鸡 (jī), 狗 (gǒu), 豬／猪 (zhū) ^{(Category: zh:Chinese zodiac signs)}

• “牛”, in 教育部臺灣台語常用詞辭典 [Dictionary of Frequently-Used Taiwanese Taigi] (overall work in Mandarin and Hokkien), Ministry of Education, R.O.C., 2026.

(Second grade kyōiku kanji)

1. cow, ox, cattle

• Go-on: ぐ (gu)
• Kan-on: ぎゅう (gyū, Jōyō)^{←ぎう (giu, historical)}
• Kan’yō-on: ご (go)
• Kun: うし (ushi, 牛, Jōyō)

Kanji in this term
牛
うし Grade: 2
kun'yomi

From Old Japanese, from Proto-Japonic *‹u,o›si.

• (Tokyo) うし [ùshí] (Heiban – [0])^[1][2]
• IPA^(key): [ɯ̟ɕi]

牛(うし) or 牛(ウシ) • (ushi) 

1. cow, bull, ox, cattle, a domestic bovine

   Synonyms: (dialectal, Tohoku) べこ, (dialectal, Akita, Sendai, Shimokita, Tsugaru) べご, (dialectal, Kagoshima) べぶ

   • 1999 November 18, “牛(ぎゅう)魔(ま)人(じん) [Bull Jinn]”, in Vol.6, Konami:

     森(もり)に住(す)む牛(うし)の魔(ま)人(じん)。ツノを突(つ)き出(だ)し突(とっ)進(しん)して攻(こう)撃(げき)。

     Mori ni sumu ushi no majin. Tsuno o tsukidashi tosshin shite kōgeki.

     A bovine jinn who resides in the woods. He’ll charge at you and stick you with his horns.

   • 1999 December 1, “ミノタウルス [Minotaurus]”, in BOOSTER 6, Konami:

     すごい力(ちから)を持(も)つウシの怪(かい)物(ぶつ)。オノひと振(ふ)りで何(なに)でもなぎ倒(たお)す。

     Sugoi chikara o motsu ushi no kaibutsu. Ono hitofuri de nani demo nagitaosu.

     A bovine monster with tremendous power who chops up anyone in his way with one axe swing.

2. beef

As with many terms that name organisms, this term is often spelled in katakana, especially in biological contexts (where katakana is customary), as ウシ (ushi).

Kanji in this term
牛
ぎゅう Grade: 2
kan'on

From Middle Chinese 牛 (ngjuw, “cow”). Compare Hokkien 牛 (giû / ngiû).

• (Tokyo) ぎゅう [gyúꜜù] (Atamadaka – [1])^[1][2]
• IPA^(key): [ɡʲɨː]

牛(ぎゅう) • (gyū) ^{←ぎう (giu)?}

1. cow, bull, ox, cattle
2. beef
3. (astronomy) Ox

• “牛”, in 漢字ぺディア [Kanjipedia]‎^[2] (in Japanese), The Japan Kanji Aptitude Testing Foundation, 2015–2026

牛 (eumhun 소 우 (so u))

1. hanja form^? of 우 (“cow”)

• 와우 (蝸牛, wau, “snail”)
• 우유 (牛乳, uyu, “cow's milk”)

(Second grade kyōiku kanji)

• Kun: うす (usu, 牛)

From Proto-Ryukyuan *usi, from Proto-Japonic *usi.

• (Tarama; Nakachi, Irabu) IPA^(key): /u.sz̩/

牛(うす) (usu) 

1. cow, cattle
2. beef

• Tokuyama, Shun'ei (渡久山春英); Kenan, Celik (セリック・ケナン) (2020), 南琉球宮古語多良間方言辞典 [A Dictionary of Tarama Miyako, a dialect of Southern Ryukyuan], Tokyo (東京都): Kokuritsu Kokugo Kenkyūjo, Gengo Hen'i Kenkyū Ryōiki (国立国語研究所 言語変異研究領域), →ISBN, page 89
• Tomihama, Sadayoshi (富浜定吉) (2013), 宮古伊良部方言辞典 [Miyako Irabu Dialect Dictionary], Naha (那覇市): Okinawa Times (沖縄タイムス社), →ISBN, page 102

(Second grade kyōiku kanji)

• Kun: うし (ushi, 牛, Jōyō)

Kanji in this term
牛
うし Grade: 2
kun'yomi

From Proto-Ryukyuan *usi, from Proto-Japonic *usi.

• IPA^(key): /ʔuɕi/

牛(うし) (ushi) 

1. cow, cattle

• “うし【牛】” in JLect - Japonic Languages and Dialects Database Dictionary, 2019.

牛: Hán Nôm readings: ngưu, ngọ, ngỏ, ngõ, ngâu

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(Second grade kyōiku kanji)

• Kun: うち (uchi, 牛)

From Proto-Ryukyuan *usi, from Proto-Japonic *usi.

牛(うち) (uchi) 

1. cow, cattle

• “うち【牛】” in JLect - Japonic Languages and Dialects Database Dictionary, 2019.