mù
tend cattle
Evolution
Oracle script
(~1250-1000 BC)
Bronze script
Late Shang dynasty (~1100 BC)
Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)
Clerical script
Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)Regular script
ModernDefinitions
Most common words with 牧
Freq. | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
chaplain | ||
to herd | ||
pasture | ||
animal husbandry | ||
to raise animals |
Historical pronunciation
Old Chinese | Middle Chinese | Pinyin | Gloss |
*mək | mjuwk | mù | to herd, herdsman |
Statistics
Not found in HSK word list
Appears in 11.1325% of movies
1530th most common character in movies
1580th most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 8 |
Unicode | U+7267 |
Shuowen | “牧，養牛人也。从攴，从牛。《詩》曰：‘牧人乃夢。’” |
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