牛
cow
4 strokes. Taught in grade 2. Newspaper frequency rank 1202.
Readings
- ギュウ (on reading): 牛乳 (ぎゅうにゅう) (cow's) milk; 牛肉 (ぎゅうにく) beef
- うし (kun reading): 牛 (うし) cattle (Bos taurus); 牡牛 (おうし) bull
- Read as a whole word: 牛膝 (いのこずち) Japanese chaff flower (Achyranthes japonica)
Components
- 牛 radical cow
Kanji containing 牛
- 制 system
- 解 unravel
- 告 revelation
- 件 affair
- 物 thing
- 特 special
- 犠 sacrifice
- 牲 animal sacrifice
- 牧 breed
- 牟 pupil (eye)
- 牡 male
- 牝 female
- 犀 rhinoceros
- 牢 prison
- 吽 bark
- 牴 touch
- 牽 pull
- 牾 go against
- 犁 plow
- 犂 plow
- 犇 clamour
- 犒 thanks
- 犖 brindled cow
- 犢 calf
- 犧 sacrifice
Words using 牛
- 牛乳 (ぎゅうにゅう) (cow's) milk
- 牛肉 (ぎゅうにく) beef
- 牛丼 (ぎゅうどん) gyudon
- 牛タン (ぎゅうタン) beef tongue
- 水牛 (すいぎゅう) water buffalo (Bubalus bubalis)
- 牛 (うし) cattle (Bos taurus)
- 牡牛 (おうし) bull
- 雌牛 (めうし) cow
- 子牛 (こうし) calf
- 牛飼い (うしかい) cattleman
- 牛膝 (いのこずち) Japanese chaff flower (Achyranthes japonica)
- 牛頭天王 (ごずてんのう) Gozu Tenno (deity said to be the Indian god Gavagriva)
- 牛頭 (ごず) ox-headed demon (in hell)
- 牽牛子 (けんごし) morning glory seeds (medicinal use)
- 牛頭馬頭 (ごずめず) horse-headed and ox-headed demons in the Buddhist hell
- 牛黄 (ごおう) calculus bovis
188 words in all.