Today’s first #kanji is #牛 and it makes its own radical. Apparently it is a pictograph of an animal’s head. Can you tell which animal it is?
Meaning: a bull, a cow, an ox
Reading: ギュウ、うし
牛肉（ギュウニク）: beef
牛乳（ギュウニュウ）: milk, cow’s milk
牛歩（ギュウホ）戦術（センジュツ）: tactics to delay or prevent action in the Japanese Parliament by moving forward to vote on legislation at a snail’s pace
牛（ギュウ）耳（ジ）る: control, lead, have control of…
和牛（ワギュウ）: wagyu – a Japanese breed of cow
肉牛（ニクギュウ）: beef cattle, a beef cow
乳牛（ニュウギュウ）: a dairy cow, a milking cow
牛（うし）: a bull, a cow, an ox (In Japanese we don’t differentiate bulls, cows and exen.)
子牛（こうし）: a calf
<Difficult Reading>
牛車（ギッシャ）: an ox-drawn carriage (used by nobility in the Heian period)
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