Radical 93

Chinese character radical
← 92 Radical 93 (U+2F5C) 94 →
(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
Stroke order of the left component form 牜

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.

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 being its associated indexing component.

Evolution

Derived characters

Strokes Characters
+0 牛 牜Component
+2 牝 牞 牟
+3 牠 牡 牢 牣 牤
+4 牥 牦SC (=氂 -> ) 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 TC variant
+12 犜 犝 犞 SC variant
+13 JP (=犧)
+15 犡 犢 犣 犤 犥 犦
+16 犧 犨
+18
+20
+23

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 in Wiktionary, the free dictionary.

References

  1. ^ 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: 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.

External links

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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.