The Japanese Radical: 牛


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Meaning
cow    牛

Explanation Shows the head キ of a cow with only one horn .

Used in these characters:
JLPT 5Joyo 1
precede, previous
saki, SEN
Top: variant of cow , bottom: legs
A cow with only two legs walks preceding.  
JLPT 4Joyo 2
cow, bull
ushi, GYŪ

It shows the head of a cow with only one horn .  
JLPT 4Joyo 3
thing, matter
mono, BUTSU, MOTSU
Left: cow , right: rays
A cow sending out rays is a special thing.  
JLPT 3Joyo 4
announce, proclaim, tell, inform, confess
tsugeru, KOKU
Top: cow bottom: mouth
The cow opens the mouth to announce sth.  
JLPT 3Joyo 4
pasture, meadow, breed
maki, BOKU
Left: cow , right: to beat/strike (hand with a stick )
The cow is driven with strikes to the pasture.  
JLPT 2Joyo 5
explanation, untie, unravel, solution
toku, KAI, GE
Left: corner, horn , right: sword and cow
A horn was cut by a sword from the cow: Do you have an explanation?  
JLPT 2Joyo 5
affair, matter, item, subject
KEN
Left: person /, right: cow
A person came with a cow: What an affair!  
JLPT 2Joyo 5
organization, system, control, structure
SEI
Left top: cow , below: cloth , right: knife
A cow wrapped in cloth with a knife: what an organization!  
JLPT 2Joyo 5
manufacture
SEI
Top: system (A cow wrapped in cloth with a knife: what an organization!), below: clothes
A system for clothes' manufacturing.  
JLPT 2Joyo 5
manufacture, make, build, create
tsukuru,
Left: movement , right: proclaim, tell, announce (The cow opens the mouth to announce sth.)
Announcing with a movement that something shall be manufactured.  
JLPT 4Joyo 4
special
TOKU
Left: cow , right: temple (.. from earth and built with skillful hands )
(Typically smaller animals like sheep or chicken were sacrificed. Thus:) A cow at the temple is special.  
JLPT 4Joyo 6
to wash, laundry
arau, SEN
Left: water , right: precede, previous (The cow uses the front legs to preceed.)
(In Japan you have to shower BEFORE you go into the ofuro [= hot bath], thus:) The water should be used 'before' for: washing.  
JLPT 1Joyo 7
sacrifice, scapegoat
GI
Left: cow , right: morality, justice (If the sheep is killed by a hand with a halberd , is that justice?)
Cows and sheep turn by me (= the hand at a halberd ) into: sacrifices.  
JLPT 1Joyo 7
cruel, severe, dreadful
KOKU
Left: wine mug , right: proclaim, announce (The cow opens the mouth to announce sth.)
After a mug of wine, he proclaimed about the cruelties. (Or: Another mug of wine is announced: How dreadful!)  
JLPT 1Joyo 7
animal sacrifice, offering
SEI
Left: cow , right: life (The twig at the growing plant /丰 stands for life.)
A cow as a living animal sacrifice.  

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