牧 – breed, care for, shepherd

8 strokesTaught in grade 4#1360 in newspaper frequencyN2 vocabulary

The kanji 牧 means breed, care for, shepherd, feed, pasture. Its on’yomi (Chinese-derived reading) is ボク (boku); its kun’yomi (native Japanese reading) is まき (maki). It is written with 8 strokes, under radical 牛 (no. 93).

Stroke order

Stroke order from KanjiVG. Practise others with the stroke order lookup.

Readings

Type	Reading	Romaji
On’yomi	ボク	boku
Kun’yomi	まき	maki

A dot separates the kanji’s part from the okurigana (kana written after it), e.g. まな.ぶ → 学ぶ.

Radical and components

Radical: 牛 (Kangxi radical 93). Components: 牛・攵・乞.

Words using 牧

牧場ぼくじょうfarm (livestock)牧畜ぼくちくstock-farming牧師ぼくしpastor遊牧ゆうぼくnomadism

Example sentences

あなたの牧場は何エーカーありますか。

What is the acreage of your ranch?

Tatoeba #233023

牛が牧場で草を食べている。

Cows are eating grass in the meadow.

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１９６４年にキング牧師はノーベル平和賞を受賞した。

In 1964, Rev. King won the Nobel Peace Prize.

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Kanji with the same radical

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