うし

牛

cow

ushi

Quiz

JLPT: N3
Frequency: #2,543

Meanings

1
cattle (Bos taurus); cow; bullnoun
2
beefnoun
3
Chinese "Ox" constellation (one of the 28 mansions)noun

JMdict 1231490

In a sentence

How it works

This is a clean topic-object-verb line. は (topic) sets up 牛(うし) (cow) as the topic, を (object) marks 草(くさ) (grass) as what gets eaten, and 食べる(たべる) (eat) lands last. Japanese always puts the verb at the very end, after everything it acts on.

Written with

牛cow4 strokes