Kanji
N1 6 strokes Grade 3 freq #1852

sheep

On'yomi (音読み)

Kun'yomi (訓読み)

Radical (部首)

sheep hitsuji

Others with this radical

On'yomi compounds (音読み)

wool
amniotic fluid
mutton; lamb (meat)
gerenuk (Litocranius walleri); Waller's gazelle
autumn fern (Dryopteris erythrosora); Japanese shield fern
Adiantum monochlamys (species of maidenhair fern)
tuberous sword fern (Nephrolepis cordifolia)
Polystichum tripteron (species of the wood fern family)
Japanese beech fern (Thelypteris decursive-pinnata)
Blechnum amabile (species of hard fern)

Kun'yomi words (訓読み)

sheep (Ovis aries)
lamb
crested Oriental chain fern (Woodwardia orientalis)
stray sheep

Example sentences

He owns a good few sheep.

The people followed the dictator like so many sheep.

Sheep provide us with wool.

My father's work is to buy wool.