牧
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to herd; to breed livestock; to govern (old); government official (old)
- HSK 3.0
- Level 7–9
- Old HSK
- Level 6
- Strokes
- 8
- Radical
- 牛 +4
- Structure
- Left–right 左右
- Traditional
- 牧
- Common rank
- #1,624
- Unicode
- U+7267
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Formation & memory
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How to remember it
herd · Heisig RSH #1644
牛 cow + taskmaster
Keyword method from Heisig's Remembering Simplified Hanzi.
Words with 牧
The most common words first — learning a character in context makes it stick.
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 牧马人 | herdsman (of horses); wrangler | |
| 牧神节 | Lupercalia, Roman festival to Pan on 15th February | |
| 苏格兰牧羊犬 | Scotch collie; rough collie | |
| 牧野区 | Muye, a district of Xinxiang City 新鄉市|新乡市[Xin1 xiang1 Shi4], Henan | |
| 牧夫座 | Boötes (constellation) | |
| 牧羊人 | shepherd | |
| 牧羊者 | shepherd | |
| 牧人 | shepherd; pastor; pastoral | |
| 牧区 | grazing land; pasture | |
| 牧地 | pasture; grazing land | |
| 德牧 | German shepherd | |
| 牧神 | pastoral deity; shepherd god (esp. Pan in Greek mythology) | |
| 牧民 | herdsman | |
| 牧场 | pasture; grazing land; ranch | |
| 牧业 | livestock husbandry; animal product industry | |
| 牧草 | pasture grass; fodder | |
| 卑以自牧 | (idiom) to conduct oneself humbly; modest | |
| 吴自牧 | Wu Zimu (lived c. 1270), writer at the end of the Song dynasty | |
| 放牧 | to graze (livestock); to herd (livestock) | |
| 边牧 | border collie (dog breed) |