牧

音読おんよみ: ボク

訓読くんよみ: まき

画数かくすう: 8

部首ぶしゅ: うしへん(牛)

Meaning

Pasture / Graze / Herd / Shepherd

  • 牧場ぼくじょう — ranch / farm
  • 牧草ぼくそう — pasture grass
  • 牧羊ぼくよう — sheep herding
  • 放牧ほうぼく — grazing
  • 牧師ぼくし — pastor
  • 牧畜ぼくちく — livestock farming
  • 牧草地ぼくそうち — pastureland
  • 牧歌的ぼっかてき — pastoral / idyllic

Left: うし (cow). Right: ぼくづくり (action/urge). Together they suggest tending and driving livestock—hence “to herd” and by extension places and work related to pasturing.

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