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
Stroke order animation

Radical 93 or radical cow (牛部) meaning "cow" or "bulls" is one of the 34 Kangxi radicals (214 radicals total) composed of 4 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 Kangxi Dictionary, there are 233 characters (out of 49,030) to be found under this 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.

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  Oracle bone script character
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  Bronze script character
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  Large seal script character
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  Small seal script character

As an independent sinogram, 牛 is a Chinese character with the meaning "bull". In Japan, it is one of the Kyōiku kanji which is taught in the second grade of elementary school.^[1]

Look up 牛 in Wiktionary, the free dictionary.

• Fazzioli, Edoardo (1987). Chinese calligraphy : from pictograph to ideogram : the history of 214 essential Chinese/Japanese characters. calligraphy by Rebecca Hon Ko. New York: Abbeville Press. 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.). Sebastopol, Calif.: O'Reilly Media. ISBN 978-0-596-51447-1.

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