Words
Words with 牛
Kanji 牛, meaning cow, appears in 213 Japanese vocabulary entries.
牛裂き
うしざき
tying a person's limbs to two or four bulls and making them run in different directions (Warring States-era death penalty)
十牛
じゅうぎゅう
Ten Bulls (ten stages of the herding of an ox, used as an analogy for training the mind on the path to enlightenment)
十牛図
じゅうぎゅうず
Ten Ox-Herding Pictures (ten images and accompanying short poems in Zen iconography that use the herding of an ox as an analogy for training the mind on the path to enlightenment)