字の旅3,000 years in four forms
Oracle bone · ShangShang · c. 1200 BCE乙6964 合9525 賓組
Oracle bone and bronze: Wikimedia Commons, traced from Academia Sinica, CC0. Small seal: Academia Sinica 小學堂, CC0. Today’s form: KanjiVG, CC BY-SA 3.0.
部首Radical · in Animals & Wildlife
牛
牛 cow
うしへん ushihen
4 strokesRadical of 5 kanjiPart of 9
Your ink in 牛0% painted · 0 of 5 familiar
Origin · sourced
Pictogram象形
Pictogram (象形) of a bull's head, with two horns and two ears. Perhaps unrelated to 告; unrelated to 先.
Source: Wiktionary, 牛 (rev. 92691725), CC BY-SA 4.0
Memory story · made up to help you remember
“The provider on the left! When the "cow" moves to the side, it sets the stage for characters related to physical "things" and the "sacrifice" required for sacred rites. Imagine a cow being led to a market or a shrine. It represents the "material" world—the objects we touch, the animals we raise, and the "special" status of something chosen for a purpose.”
Where it sits in a kanji
Indicates physical objects (things), specific types of animals, sacrifice, special status, or the concept of materials and livestock.
育つ
What it grows into
Built from 牛, with sourced origins
- 牧breedボク · まき
- 特specialトク
- 物thingブツ · もの
牛 + 勿sound
Phono-semantic compound · Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0
一覧
Every kanji with 牛 as its radical
Most used first
Ink shades, lightest to darkest: 白 Not met, 淡 Met, 中 Learning, 濃 Familiar, 印 Mastered
All 5 kanji