牧 (Kangxi radical 93,牛+4, 8 strokes,cangjie input竹手人大 (HQOK),four-corner2854₀,composition⿰牜攵)

• 𫹘, 𤲧, 𫘎, 𮭁, 𦱒, 𤔤, 𢛮, 𣈊, 𭷧, 𤚓, 𭯡, 𭷯, 𮢒, 𮬾

• Kangxi Dictionary:page 698, character 16
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 19950
• Dae Jaweon: page 1110, character 14
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 3, page 1803, character 19
• Unihan data for U+7267

Historical forms of the character牧
Shang	Western Zhou	Warring States	Shuowen Jiezi (compiled inHan)	Liushutong (compiled inMing)
Oracle bone script	Bronze inscriptions	Chu slip and silk script	Small seal script	Transcribed ancient scripts

Ideogrammic compound (會意 /会意): 牛(“cow”) + 攴(“a whip”) – to herd.

Cognate withTibetanའབྲོག་པ།('brog pa,“herdsman; nomad; shepherd”) (Schuessler, 2007).

牧

1. toherd; totend; tobreedlivestock
2. herdsman;herder;shepherd
3. (obsolete on its own in Standard Chinese) togovern; torule
4. (historical)overlord;ruler (of one of thenine ancient city states in China)
5. short for畜牧業／畜牧业 (xùmùyè, “animal husbandry”)
6. (Christianity)pastor

   聘牧  ― pìnmù  ―  to hire apastor

   按牧  ― ànmù  ―  to ordain apastor

7. (Eastern Min) toheal; tocure
8. asurname

• 莆田市荔城区档案馆[Putian City Licheng District Archives], editor (2022), “牧”, in莆仙方言文读字汇 [Puxian Dialect Literary Reading Dictionary] (overall work in Mandarin and Puxian Min), page161.

(Fourth grade kyōiku kanji)

1. toherd

• Go-on:もく(moku)
• Kan-on:ぼく(boku,Jōyō)
• Kun:まき(maki,牧,Jōyō)、かう(kau,牧う)、やしなう(yashinau,牧う)

Thought to be from馬(ま)(ma,“horse”,obsolete or in compounds) +城(き)(ki,“fortress,castle”,archaic).^[1][2][3]

• (Tokyo)まき[máꜜkì] (Atamadaka – [1])^[2][4]
• (Tokyo)まき[màkíꜜ] (Odaka – [2])^[4]
• IPA^(key): [ma̠kʲi]

牧(まき)• (maki) 

1. pasture

• 牧(まき)場(ば)(makiba)
• 牧畑(まきばた)(makibata)
• 牧人(まきびと)(makibito)
• 牧笛(まきぶえ)(makibue)
• 勅旨牧(ちょくしまき)(chokushimaki)

牧(まき)• (Maki) 

1. asurname

• “牧”, in漢字ぺディア [Kanjipedia]‎^[2] (in Japanese),The Japan Kanji Aptitude Testing Foundation,2015–2025

FromMiddle Chinese牧 (MC mjuwk). Recorded asMiddle Korean목〮(mwók) (Yale:mwok) inHunmong Jahoe (訓蒙字會 / 훈몽자회), 1527.

KoreanWikisource has texts containing thehanja:

牧

牧 (eumhun칠목(chil mok))

1. hanja form^? of목(“toherd”)

• 국제퇴계학회 대구경북지부 (國際退溪學會 大邱慶北支部) (2007). Digital Hanja Dictionary,전자사전／電子字典.[3]

牧:Hán Nôm readings:mục,mặt

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