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牛 kanji
cow
- JLPT level
- N4 (unofficial)
- First appears in
- N5 vocabulary
- Strokes
- 4
- School grade
- Grade 2 (elementary school)
On readings
ギュウ
Kun readings
うし
Words with 牛
LevelWord & meaningActions
- —牛刀chef's knife
- —牛缶canned beef
- —牛疫cattle plague; rinderpest
- —牛鍋sukiyaki
- —角牛bullfight
- —犠牛sacrificial bullock
- —牛角horn (of a cow)
- —牛刺sliced raw beef
- —牛後rump of a cow; low-ranking member of a large group
- —牛糞cattle manure; cow dung; cowpat; bullshit
- —原牛aurochs; urus (extinct ancestor of the modern cow, Bos taurus)
- —犎牛zebu; humped cattle
- —牛耳ears of an ox
- —十牛Ten Bulls (ten stages of the herding of an ox, used as an analogy for training the mind on the path to enlightenment)
- —牛飯rice covered with beef and vegetables
- —黒牛black cattle
- —猛牛raging bull; ferocious bull
- —牛串skewered beef
- —呉牛water buffalo
- —黄牛Chinese yellow cattle