Radical 93

{{Infobox Kangxi radical

|93|uni=725B

|meaning=cow

|pny= niú

|bopo= ㄋㄧㄡˊ

|gr= niou

|wade= niu²

|jyutping= ngau4

|yale= ngàuh

|poj= giû

|cn= (牜) 牛字旁 niúzìpáng
(Bottom) 牛字底 niúzìdǐ

|onyomi= ギュウ gyū / ゴ go

|kunyomi= うし ushi

|jp= 牛/うし ushi
(牜) 牛偏/うしへん ushihen

|hang= 소 so

|hanja= 우 u

}}

File:牜-order.gif

Radical 93 or radical cow ({{Lang|zh-Hant|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 {{Linktext|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.

{{Lang|zh-Hans|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 {{Linktext|牜|lang=zh-Hans}} being its associated indexing component.

Evolution

File:牛-oracle.svg|Oracle bone script character

File:牛-bronze.svg|Bronze script character

File:牛-bigseal.svg|Large seal script character

File:牛-seal.svg|Small seal script character

Derived characters

class="wikitable" ! Strokes !! Characters
+0	style="font-size: large;" \| {{Linktext\|牛}} {{Linktext\|牜}}^Component
+2	style="font-size: large;" \| {{Linktext\|牝}} {{Linktext\|牞}} {{Linktext\|牟}}
+3	style="font-size: large;" \| {{Linktext\|牠}} {{Linktext\|牡}} {{Linktext\|牢}} {{Linktext\|牣}} {{Linktext\|牤}}
+4	style="font-size: large;" \| {{Linktext\|牥}} {{Linktext\|牦}}^SC (={{Linktext\|氂}} -> 毛) {{Linktext\|牧}} {{Linktext\|牨}} {{Linktext\|物}} {{Linktext\|牪}} {{Linktext\|牫}} {{Linktext\|牬}}
+5	style="font-size: large;" \| {{Linktext\|牭}} {{Linktext\|牮}} {{Linktext\|牯}} {{Linktext\|牰}} {{Linktext\|牱}} {{Linktext\|牲}} {{Linktext\|牳}} {{Linktext\|牴}} {{Linktext\|牵}}^SC (=牽)
+6	style="font-size: large;" \| {{Linktext\|牶}} {{Linktext\|牷}} {{Linktext\|牸}} {{Linktext\|特}} {{Linktext\|牺}}^SC (=犧)
+7	style="font-size: large;" \| {{Linktext\|牻}} {{Linktext\|牼}} {{Linktext\|牽}} {{Linktext\|牾}} {{Linktext\|牿}} {{Linktext\|犁}}
+8	style="font-size: large;" \| {{Linktext\|犀}} {{Linktext\|犂}} (=犁) {{Linktext\|犃}} {{Linktext\|犄}} {{Linktext\|犅}} {{Linktext\|犆}} {{Linktext\|犇}} {{Linktext\|犈}} {{Linktext\|犉}} {{Linktext\|犊}}^SC (=犢) {{Linktext\|犋}}
+9	style="font-size: large;" \| {{Linktext\|犌}} {{Linktext\|犍}} {{Linktext\|犎}} {{Linktext\|犏}} {{Linktext\|犐}} {{Linktext\|犑}}
+10	style="font-size: large;" \| {{Linktext\|犒}} {{Linktext\|犓}} {{Linktext\|犔}} {{Linktext\|犕}} {{Linktext\|犖}} {{Linktext\|犗}}
+11	style="font-size: large;" \| {{Linktext\|犘}} {{Linktext\|犙}} {{Linktext\|犚}} {{Linktext\|犛}} {{Linktext\|犟\|lang=zh-Hant}}^{TC variant}
+12	style="font-size: large;" \| {{Linktext\|犜}} {{Linktext\|犝}} {{Linktext\|犞}} {{Linktext\|犟\|lang=zh-Hans}}^{SC variant}
+13	style="font-size: large;" \| {{Linktext\|犠}}^JP (=犧)
+15	style="font-size: large;" \| {{Linktext\|犡}} {{Linktext\|犢}} {{Linktext\|犣}} {{Linktext\|犤}} {{Linktext\|犥}} {{Linktext\|犦}}
+16	style="font-size: large;" \| {{Linktext\|犧}} {{Linktext\|犨}}
+18	style="font-size: large;" \| {{Linktext\|犩}}
+20	style="font-size: large;" \| {{Linktext\|犪}}
+23	style="font-size: large;" \| {{Linktext\|犫}}

Sinogram

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.{{Cite web |title=The Kyoiku Kanji (教育漢字) - Kanshudo |url=https://www.kanshudo.com/collections/kyoiku_kanji |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220324010221/https://www.kanshudo.com/collections/kyoiku_kanji |archive-date=March 24, 2022 |access-date=2023-05-06 |website=www.kanshudo.com}}

References

Literature

{{cite book|last= Fazzioli |first= Edoardo |others= calligraphy by Rebecca Hon Ko |title= Chinese calligraphy : from pictograph to ideogram : the history of 214 essential Chinese/Japanese characters |year= 1987 |publisher= Abbeville Press |location= New York |isbn= 0-89659-774-1 }}
{{cite book|last= Lunde |first= Ken |title= CJKV Information Processing: Chinese, Japanese, Korean & Vietnamese Computing |edition= Second |date= Jan 5, 2009 |publisher= O'Reilly Media |location= Sebastopol, Calif. |isbn= 978-0-596-51447-1 |chapter= Appendix J: Japanese Character Sets |chapter-url= http://examples.oreilly.com/9780596514471/cjkvip2e-appJ.pdf }}

External links

[https://www.unicode.org/cgi-bin/GetUnihanData.pl?codepoint=725B Unihan Database - U+725B]

Category:Kanji

Category:Kyōiku kanji

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