Radical 93

牛 牜 ⺧
92 ⽛ ◄	93	► ⽝ 94
Pinyin :	niú 牛 字 旁 niúzìpáng (= radical beef)
Zhuyin :	ㄋ 一 ㄡ
Hiragana :	う し ushi
Kanji :	牛 偏 ushihen (= radical beef)
Hangul :	소
Sinocorean :	우 u (= beef)
Codepoint :	U + 725B 725C
Stroke sequence :

Radical 93 with the meaning “ cattle ”, also buffalo, ox or bull, is one of 34 of the 214 traditional radicals in Chinese writing that are written with four lines.

With 34 character combinations in Mathews' Chinese-English Dictionary, there are relatively many characters that can be found under this radical in the lexicon.

The radical beef takes only in the traditional characters - list of traditional radicals consisting of 214 radicals, the 93rd position. It can be found in a completely different place in modern abbreviation dictionaries. In the New Chinese-German Dictionary from the People's Republic of China, for example, it is 110th.

The seal mark shows two large, U-shaped horns bent upwards, one of which can still be seen as a vertical 撇 line to the left of 牛 (niu). In the narrowly pressed spelling variant das, the radical is always found on the left in compound characters.

Under no circumstances should the radical 93 牛be confused with the very similar-looking symbol 午 for the horse, formed from radical 24 , whose earth branch symbol is in turn the radical 187馬 with the short form 马.

A variant assumes 牛 in the head position in the compound sign, for example in: 告 (gao = to communicate). Its original meaning was to pray to the gods while a sacrifice - often an ox - was being made. Hence the beef here too auch.

The signs governed by 牛 mostly have to do with the topic of cattle or what was thought to be cattle-like, such as 特 (te in 特 牛 teniu), 犀 (= rhinoceros) and 牺 (= sacrificial animal).

牟 (onomatopoeic for moo!), 牢 (lao = enclosure) also belong to cattle. It becomes correct with 牧 (mu = herding cattle). Here we see the beef 牛 (niu) on the left and the hand with the stick (攵) on the right.

Water Buffalo in Taiwan

The buffalo牛niú (or beef, bull, ox) is considered good-natured according to the Chinese calendar . Buffalo years (丑chǒu ) are:

19th of February	1901 to 0February 7th	1902 - metal
0February 6th	1913 to January 25th	1914 - water
January 25th	1925 to February 12	1926 - wood
February 11th	1937 to January 30th	1938 - fire
January 29th	1949 to February 16	1950 - earth
February 15th	1961 to 0February 4th	1962 - metal
03 February	1973 to January 22nd	1974 - water
20. February	1985 to 0February 8th	1986 - wood
0February 7th	1997 to January 27th	1998 - fire
January 26th	2009 to February 23	2010 - earth
February 12th	2021 to January 31	2022 - metal

People born in the Ox years are considered powerful, loyal and reliable. They are capable leaders who scrutinize before embarking on something new - but if they do, then with all their hearts. Work and family are important values.

Character compounds ruled by radical 93

Strokes	character
+ 00	牛 牜
+ 02	牝 牞 牟 先
+ 03	牠 牡 牢 牣 牤 告
+ 04	牥 牦 牧 牨 物 牪 牫 牬
+ 05	牭 牮 牯 牰 牱 牲 牳 牴 牵
+ 06	牶 牷 牸 特 牺
+ 07	牻 牼 牽 牾 牿 犁
+ 08	犀 犂 犃 犄 犅 犆 犇 犈 犉 犊 犋
+ 09	犌 犍 犎 犏 犐 犑
+10	犒 犓 犔 犕 犖 犗
+11	犘 犙 犚 犛
+12	犜 犝 犞 犟
+13	犠
+15	犡 犢 犣 犤 犥 犦
+16	犧 犨
+18	犩
+20	犪
+23	犫

In the Unicode block Kangxi radicals , radical 93 is coded under the code point number 12.124 (U + 2F5C).

literature

• Edoardo Fazzioli : Painted Words. 214 Chinese characters - from picture to concept . Marixverlag, Wiesbaden 2004, ISBN 3-937715-34-7 , p. 154 .
• Cecilia Lindqvist : A world of signs - about the Chinese and their writing . Droemer Knaur, Munich 1990, ISBN 3-426-26482-X , p. 131 .

For detailed references, see List of Traditional Radicals: Literature

Web links

Commons : Radikal 93  - Graphic representations of Radikal 93

• Xiù cai.oai.de (PDF; 1.72 MB) Explanation of Radikal 93 on page 74