Keyword
sheep
Info
FrequencyTop 1500-1600
Type
Kyōiku (3rd grade) 
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KankenLevel 8
Heisig586
Readings
よう
(28%)
(14%)
Composed of
horns
three
stick
Mnemonic

A pictograph of a ram — a male sheep — behind a fence. Since the fence is in the way you can only see its horns.

Used in kanji (17 in total)
accomplished
slow
a pack (e.g. of dogs)
detailed
Used in vocabulary (121 in total)
sheep (Ovis aries)
shepherd; shepherdess
yōkan; jellied dessert made from red bean paste, agar, and sugar
mutton; lamb (meat)
amniotic fluid
stray sheep; lost lamb; (fig.) person at a loss for what to do
fern (esp. species Gleichenia japonica); fernery
ram (sheep)
Aries (constellation); the Ram
sheep skin; fleece; parchment
(bar of) sweet-potato paste
mizu yōkan; soft adzuki-bean jelly
sheep farming
Capricornus (constellation); Capricorn; the Goat
kid; young goat; goatling
ram (sheep)
goat's milk; goat milk
winding; zigzag; meandering; sheep intestines
crying wine and selling vinegar; deceptive advertisement
altocumulus cloud
Aries (1st zodiacal sign); the Ram
yōkan; jellied dessert made from red bean paste, agar, and sugar
serow; wild goat
rusty color produced when black or purple clothes fade
Japanese dock (plant) (Rumex japonicus)
neri yōkan; firm adzuki-bean jelly
sacrificial goat; scapegoat
bighorn sheep (Ovis canadensis)
sheep breeder; sheepman; shepherd
herd of sheep; flock of sheep
pteridophyte (any plant of division Pteridophyta, incl. ferns and fern allies)
ram (sheep); someone who lives their life by instinct
kid; young goat; goatling
discouraged person; (like a) sheep being led to a slaughterhouse
flock of sheep; collection of weaklings
too many options making selection difficult; truth being hard to find as paths to it proliferate
hijiki (dark edible seaweed usu. sold in dried black strips; Hizikia fusiformis)
neri yōkan; firm adzuki-bean jelly
sheep in a tiger's skin; gimcrack; showy without real worth; all show and no substance
autumn fern (Dryopteris erythrosora); Japanese shield fern; Japanese wood fern; copper shield fern
mizu yōkan; soft adzuki-bean jelly
mizu yōkan; soft adzuki-bean jelly
(bar of) sweet-potato paste
neri yōkan; firm adzuki-bean jelly
neri yōkan; firm adzuki-bean jelly
Japanese serow (Capricornis crispus)
common maidenhair (species of maidenhair fern, Adiantum capillus-veneris)
horny goat weed (Epimedium grandiflorum var. thunbergianum); rowdy lamb herb; barrenwort; bishop's hat; fairy wings; yin yang huo
horny goat weed (Epimedium grandiflorum var. thunbergianum); rowdy lamb herb; barrenwort; bishop's hat; fairy wings; yin yang huo
northern maidenhair (Adiantum pedatum)
feather star (Comatulida spp.); comatulid; Comanthus japonica (species of feather star)
bemoaning the frustration of reaching truth (for surplus of academic paths); being at a loss
pasture or grazing land
kanji "sheep" radical at left
to group together against a stronger enemy
roche moutonnée; sheepback
pronghorn (Antilocapra americana); prong buck; pronghorn antelope
orf; contagious pustular dermatitis; sheep pox; scabby mouth
Comatulida (order of crinoids); feather stars
locking the barn door after the horse has bolted; doing something too late; (lit.) mending the pen after the sheep are lost
to cry wine and sell vinegar; to do deceptive advertisement; (lit.) to put up a sheep's head and sell dog meat
instant-boiled mutton
instant-boiled mutton
chorioamnionitis; intra-amniotic infection
woolly monkey (any New World monkey of genus Lagothrix)
Asplenium incisum (species of spleenwort)
maidenhair spleenwort (Asplenium trichomanes)
Old World forked fern (Dicranopteris linearis)
mountain goat (Oreamnos americanus); Rocky Mountain goat
four-horned antelope (Tetracerus quadricornis); chousingha
gerenuk (Litocranius walleri); Waller's gazelle
Tibetan antelope (Pantholops hodgsonii); chiru
thick-stemmed wood fern (Dryopteris crassirhizoma)
Blechnum amabile (species of hard fern)
Japanese beech fern (Thelypteris decursive-pinnata)
crested Oriental chain fern (Woodwardia orientalis)
Polystichum tripteron (species of the wood fern family)
tuberous sword fern (Nephrolepis cordifolia)
Adiantum monochlamys (species of maidenhair fern)
Thelypteris acuminata (species of fern)
upside-down fern (Arachniodes standishii)
Java fern (Microsorum pteropus)
Examples (42 in total)
There's a black sheep in every flock.
He owns a good few sheep.
I am a sheep. You are a sheep. We are sheep.