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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
- —牛骨beef bone (used to make stock); cattle bone; bovine bone
- —屠牛cattle slaughter (for food)
- —牽牛Altair (star in the constellation Aquila); Alpha Aquilae
- —畜牛cattle
- —成牛adult cattle; mature cattle
- —廃牛culled cow; spent cow; spent bull
- —牛胆ox gall
- —蝸牛snail; cochlea
- —牛尾cow tail; oxtail; rump of a cow
- —吉牛gyudon from the Yoshinoya chain restaurant
- —旄牛yak
- —牛耳るto control; to take the lead in; to have under one's thumb
- —牛乳屋dairy; milkman
- —乳用牛milk cow; dairy cattle
- —金牛宮Taurus (2nd zodiacal sign); the Bull
- —闘牛士bullfighter; matador
- —闘牛場bullring
- —牽牛星Altair (star in the constellation Aquila); Alpha Aquilae
- —風馬牛being indifferent
- —狂牛病mad cow disease; bovine spongiform encephalopathy; BSE