羊
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sheep; goat; CL:頭|头[tou2],隻|只[zhi1]
- HSK 3.0
- Level 3
- Old HSK
- Level 2
- Strokes
- 6
- Radical
- 羊 itself
- Structure
- Top–bottom 上下
- Traditional
- 羊
- Common rank
- #678
- Unicode
- U+7F8A
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Formation & memory
Break the character into parts you already know.
How 羊 is formed
Pictograph (象形字)
A sheep's head with horns
Components 丷
? unknown part
How to remember it
sheep · Heisig RSH #528
horns — as a component also called: sheep
Keyword method from Heisig's Remembering Simplified Hanzi.
Words with 羊
The most common words first — learning a character in context makes it stick.
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 羊角面包 | croissant | |
| 北山羊 | ibex | |
| 长角羊 | Tibetan long horned antelope | |
| 羊角风 | epilepsy | |
| 山羊胡子 | goatee | |
| 公羊传 | Mr Gongyang's Annals or commentary on 春秋[Chun1 qiu1], early history, probably written by m… | |
| 青羊区 | Qingyang, a district of Chengdu City 成都市[Cheng2 du1 Shi4], Sichuan | |
| 羊毛出在羊身上 | lit. wool comes from the sheep's back (idiom); One gets the benefit, but the price has bee… | |
| 山羊 | goat; (gymnastics) small-sized vaulting horse | |
| 羊水 | amniotic fluid | |
| 羊头 | sheep's head; fig. advertisement for good meat | |
| 头羊 | bellwether | |
| 羊毛线 | knitting wool; wool yarn | |
| 小羊 | lamb | |
| 山羊座 | (Tw, HK) see 摩羯座[Mo2 jie2 zuo4] | |
| 羊角包 | croissant | |
| 白羊朝 | Ak Koyunlu or Aq Qoyunlu Turkoman confederation of eastern Iran (c. 1378-c. 1500) | |
| 羊入虎口 | lit. a lamb in a tiger's den (idiom); fig. to tread dangerous ground | |
| 白羊 | Aries (star sign) | |
| 白羊座 | Aries (constellation and sign of the zodiac) |
Sound family
These characters use 羊 as their sound component — compare how they read.
| Character | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 羊 sound part | sheep, goat | |
| 洋 | sea, ocean; western, foreign | |
| 养 | to raise, to rear, to bring up; to support | |
| 样 | form, pattern, shape, style | |
| 氧 | oxygen | |
| 鲜 | fresh; delicious; attractive | |
| 祥 | happiness, good fortune; auspicious | |
| 痒 | to itch; to tickle | |
| 详 | complete, detailed, thorough | |
| 翔 | to soar, to hover, to glide | |
| 羌 | Qiang nationality; surname | |
| 恙 | illness, sickness; indisposition | |
| 羟 | hydroxide | |
| 佯 | to pretend, to feign; false, deceitful | |
| 徉 | to wander, to stray, to roam; to hesitate | |
| 烊 | to smelt; to close for the night | |
| 庠 | village school; teach | |
| 羰 | carbonyl group | |
| 蛘 | rice weevil |