| 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 | |||
| JapaneseKana: | 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 orradical cow (牛部) meaning"cow" or"bulls" is one of the 34Kangxi radicals (214 radicals total) composed of 4strokes.
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 theKangxi Dictionary, there are 233 characters (out of 49,030) to be found under thisradical.
牛 is also the 79th indexing component in theTable of Indexing Chinese Character Components predominantly adopted bySimplified Chinese dictionaries published inmainland China, with牜 being its associated indexing component.
| Strokes | Characters |
|---|---|
| +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 |
As an independent sinogram, 牛 is aChinese character with the meaning "bull". InJapan, it is one of theKyōiku kanji which is taught in the second grade of elementary school.[1]