牧

Translingual

Han character

牧 (radical 93 牛+4, 8 strokes, cangjie input 竹手人大 (HQOK), four-corner 2854₀, composition ⿰牜攵)

1. tend cattle, shepherd
2. (archaic) overlord, ruler (of one of the nine ancient city states in China)

References

• KangXi: page 698, character 16
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 19950
• Dae Jaweon: page 1110, character 14
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 3, page 1803, character 19
• Unihan data for U+7267

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Cantonese

Hanzi

牧 (Yale muk6)

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Japanese

Kanji

牧 (grade 4 “Kyōiku” kanji)

Readings

• On: ぼく (boku), もく (moku)
• Kun: まき (maki), かう (kau), やしなう (yashinau)

Proper noun

牧 (hiragana まき, romaji Maki)

1. A surname​.

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Korean

Hanja

牧 (hangeul 목, revised mok, McCune-Reischauer mok, Yale mok)

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Mandarin

Hanzi

牧 (pinyin chōu (chou1), mù (mu4), Wade-Giles ch'ou¹, mu⁴)

Compounds

• 牧師 (牧师)

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Vietnamese

Han character

牧 (mục, mặt)