Radical 93
| 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 | |
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Radical 93 or radical cow (牛部) meaning "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 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
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Small seal script character
Derived characters
| 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 |
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
Look up 牛 in Wiktionary, the free dictionary.
References
- ^ a b "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: 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.). ISBN 978-0-596-51447-1.
External links
Wikimedia Commons has media related to Radical 093.
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GF 0011-2009 Table of Indexing Chinese Character Components prescribes 201 principle indexing components and 100 associated indexing components (in brackets) used in Simplified Chinese. Not all associated indexing components are listed above. | |
