sheep

Origin & mnemonic

This radical is a pictograph depicting a sheep or goat with curved horns and body, originating from oracle-bone script and developing through seal script. It is one of the oldest pictographs in Chinese, representing the distinctive form of this animal.

Mnemonic: Picture a sheep with two curved horns on top and legs below to remember this character's distinctive shape.

• 羊yáng🔊

  sheep; goat

  HSK 3

  6 strokes

• 羌qiāng🔊

  variant of 羌[qiang1]

  7 strokes

• 芈mǐ🔊

  to bleat (of a sheep)

  8 strokes

• 美měi🔊

  beautiful

  HSK 3

  9 strokes

• 羍dá🔊

  little lamb

  9 strokes

• 羑yǒu🔊

  to lead

  9 strokes

• 羞xiū🔊

  shy

  10 strokes

• 羔gāo🔊

  lamb

  10 strokes

• 羖gǔ🔊

  black ewe

  10 strokes

• 羚líng🔊

  antelope

  11 strokes

• 羜zhù🔊

  five-month-old lamb

  11 strokes

• 羝dī🔊

  billy goat

  11 strokes

• 羟qiǎng🔊

  hydroxyl (radical)

  11 strokes

• 羡xiàn🔊

  to envy

  12 strokes

• 羢róng🔊

  wool of sheep

  12 strokes

• 群qún🔊

  variant of 群[qun2]

  HSK 3

  13 strokes

• 义yì🔊

  justice

  13 strokes

• 羧suō🔊

  carboxyl radical (chemistry)

  13 strokes

• 羭yú🔊

  black ram

  15 strokes

• 羮gēng🔊

  variant of 羹[geng1]

  15 strokes

• 羯jié🔊

  ram, esp. gelded

  15 strokes

• 羰tāng🔊

  carbonyl (radical)

  15 strokes

• 羲Xī🔊

  same as Fuxi 伏羲[Fu2 xi1], a mythical emperor

  16 strokes

• 䍹shān🔊

  variant of 膻[shan1]

  16 strokes

• 羱yuán🔊

  large-horned wild goat

  16 strokes

• 羹gēng🔊

  thick soup

  19 strokes

• 羸léi🔊

  entangled

  19 strokes

• 羼chàn🔊

  to mix

  21 strokes