| 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 | |
| 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 | |
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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.
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 牜 being its associated indexing component.