Kanji牛
Readingぎゅう
Frequency61%
Used in (138 in total)
cattle (Bos taurus); cow; beef; Chinese "Ox" constellation (one of the 28 mansions)
gyudon; rice covered with sliced beef, usu. with fried onion
to control; to take the lead in; to have under one's thumb
ox carriage (for Heian-era nobles); oxcart
coffee-flavored milk; coffee milk
raging bull; ferocious bull
ushi-oni; mythical ox-headed monster
bullfighting; bullfight; fighting bull
water buffalo (Bubalus bubalis); domestic Asian water buffalo; wild water buffalo (Bubalus arnee); Asian water buffalo
Wagyu (any of four breeds of Japanese cattle); Wagyu beef
horses and cattle
cow shed; cattle barn
dairy cow; dairy cattle; milk cow; milch cow
bullfighter; matador
beef tongue; ox tongue
cow tail; oxtail; rump of a cow
horn (of a cow)
milk delivery; milkman; milk deliverer
skewered beef
snail's pace; slow progress
Japanese Black (breed of cattle)
beef tallow
Altair (star in the constellation Aquila); Alpha Aquilae
cowpox; vaccinia
Kobe beef; Kobe cattle
cattle manure; cow dung; cowpat; bullshit
beef sinew; beef tendon
cowhide; oxhide
beef bone (used to make stock); cattle bone; bovine bone
butcher specializing in beef; dealer in beef; beef-hotpot restaurant
ears of an ox
mad cow disease; bovine spongiform encephalopathy; BSE
snail's pace tactics; walking extremely slowly when voting in the Diet to delay proceedings; (lit.) ox walk tactic
Taurus (2nd zodiacal sign); the Bull
beef rib meat
snail; cochlea
being indifferent
cowshed; cow farmer; restaurant specializing in beef dishes; store (butcher, etc.) that sells beef
brothel tout; pimp
gyudon from the Yoshinoya chain restaurant
Altair (star in the constellation Aquila); Alpha Aquilae
cattle slaughter (for food)
ground beef; minced beef
heavy eating and drinking; gorging and swilling; drinking like a cow and eating like a horse
adult cattle; mature cattle
beef roast; beef sirloin
pasturing cattle
sukiyaki restaurant
aurochs; urus (extinct ancestor of the modern cow, Bos taurus)
Ten Bulls (ten stages of the herding of an ox, used as an analogy for training the mind on the path to enlightenment)
Tajima cattle (breed of black Wagyu cattle); Tajima beef
small fraction (of); drop in the bucket; drop in the ocean
rump of a cow; low-ranking member of a large group
trifling (fight); (a conflict) between small countries
fighting over nothing; making a mountain out of a molehill
cattle plague; rinderpest
better to be the beak of a rooster than the rump of a bull; better to be the leader of a small group than a subordinate in a large organization; better to be a big fish in a little pond than a little fish in a big pond
better be the head of a dog than the tail of a lion; better be first in a village than second at Rome; (lit.) better to be the mouth of a chicken than the rear end of a cow
shorthorn; short-horned cattle
rice covered with beef and vegetables
(having, there being) a great number of books
minced beef; ground beef
wicked and perverse; weird and incoherent
homogenized milk; homogenised milk
to take the lead in; to control; to be the leader
to be overanxious; to worry needlessly
beef shin; beef shank; gravy beef
nerd; incel; chud
pimp; brothel tout
filibustering; (lit.) cow tongue tactics
processed meat injected with a beef tallow mixture
longhorn; long-horned cattle
processed meat injected with a beef tallow mixture
enzootic bovine leukosis (formerly bovine leukemia)
bovine leukemia (former name for enzootic bovine leukosis)
milk cow; dairy cattle
mountain anoa (Bubalus quarlesi)
Ten Ox-Herding Pictures (ten images and accompanying short poems in Zen iconography that use the herding of an ox as an analogy for training the mind on the path to enlightenment)
culled cow; spent cow; spent bull
calf; cattle being reared
trying to straighten the horns of a bull, and killing it in the process; trying to correct a small defect and ruining the whole thing; the cure is worse than the disease
work cow; work cattle
(right to acquire) dead horses and cattle (Edo period)
bull (breeding); sire
sliced raw beef
using a meat ax when a knife would suffice; taking a sledgehammer to crack a nut; using a grand-scale measure (a massive instrument) to deal with an insignificant problem
Chinese yellow cattle
culled cow; spent cow; spent bull
sacrificial bullock
boneless beef rib; boned beef rib
water buffalo
zebu; humped cattle
contagious bovine pleuropneumonia; CBPP
American bison (Bison bison); buffalo
sirenian (any aquatic mammal of order Sirenia, incl. manatees, and dugongs); sea cow
Steller's sea cow (Hydrodamalis gigas)
African buffalo (Syncerus caffer); Cape buffalo