The Chinese Radical: 牛


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Meaning
cow    牛

Explanation second earth branch

Used in these characters:
JLPT HSK 2
affair, item, components, clothes, events
jiàn
Left: person , right: cow (The head of a cow キ with only one horn )
A person comes with a cow, which is his affair.
JLPT HSK 2
ox, cow, bull
niú

The head of a cow キ with only one horn .
JLPT HSK 2
announce, to tell, to inform, to say
gào
Top: cow , below: mouth
The cow opens the mouth to announce something.
JLPT HSK 3
to break up, unravel, to separate, solution, to melt
jiě, jiè, xiè
Left: horn/corner (Image of a horn with head of an animal), right: sword , cow
The horn is cut by a sword from a cow: This is a "breaking up".
JLPT HSK 3
thing, object, matter

Left: cow (The head of a cow キ with only one horn ), right: 'do not' (shows sun rays)
A cow sending out rays is a special thing.
JLPT HSK 3
special, unique, distinguished, unusual

Left: cow (The head of a cow キ with only one horn ), right: temple (= Made of earth and built with skillful hands )
(Typically smaller animals like sheep or chicken were sacrificed. Thus:) A cow at the temple is sth: special.
JLPT HSK 5
system, to control, to manufacture, to regulat
zhì
Left: cow , cloth ; right: knife
A cow wrapped in cloth and with a knife: what a system!
JLPT HSK 6
sacrifice

西
Left: cow , right: west 西 (The sun moves below the horizon at sunset in the west)
The cow sinks down like the sun at sunset in the west, when being: sacrificed.
JLPT HSK 6
to herd, to breed livestock

Left: cow , right: strike 攵/ (hand with a stick )
The cows are striked (forced) to the pasture for herding.
JLPT HSK 6
domestic animal, pet
shēng
Left: cow , right: life (The twig at the growing plant stands for life)
A cow has the live of a: domestic animal.
JLPT HSK 6
to pull (an animal on a tether), to hold hands
qiān
From top: large , cover (here: the yoke or tether/snaffle of an animal), cow
The person with wide arms uses a yoke at the cow to lead or pull it.
JLPT HSK 6
cage, corral, prison, firm, sturdy
láo
Top: roof , below: cow
The roof serves for the cow as an enclosure, that is firm and sturdy.
JLPT no HSK
lax, relaxed, negligent
xiè
Left: feelings , right: solution 解 (A horn was cut by a sword from that cow : It that a solution?)
Feelings can be a solution, if you take it lax/relaxed.
JLPT no HSK
barley, to moo, to seek or obtain
móu
Top: nose , bottom: cow
The nose of the cow seeks for barley.
JLPT no HSK
(of a bird, animal or plant) male, key, hills

Left: cow , right: earth
The cow on the ground is male.
JLPT no HSK
crab
xiè
Top: solution 解 (A horn was cut by a sword from that cow : Is that a solution?), bottom: insect
It has a horn (= the shell) and with it claws it can pinch a cow. This 'insect' is: the crab.
JLPT no HSK
plow

Top: profit (Harvesting rice plants with a knife brings profit.), bottom: cow, ox
A profit brings the ox at a plow.
JLPT no HSK
pupil (of the eye), eye
móu
Left: eye , right: barly 牟 (The nose of the cow seeks for barlay.)
In the eye is something 'barley-shaped': the pupil.
JLPT no HSK
rhinoceros, sharp

Outside: buttocks , below: vari of water , cow
The buttocks is in the water of this 'cow': the rhinoceros.
JLPT no HSK
calf, sacrificial victim

Left: cow , right: to sell (For ten [coins] the hat of the leader [= the big with protruding eyes ] is sold)
The 'cow' that is sold is: the calf.

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