Sheep in Chinese (Mandarin): 羊 (yáng)

Use it in a sentence

The characters in 羊

• 羊

  Sheep or goat. It began as a drawing of a sheep's head with curved horns.

  6 strokes

Second tone. 羊 covers both: a sheep is 绵羊 (miányáng) and a goat is 山羊 (shānyáng).

More examples with 羊

• 小羊在吃草。

  Xiǎo yáng zài chī cǎo.

  The lamb is eating grass.

• 羊的毛很软。

  羊的毛很軟。

  Yáng de máo hěn ruǎn.

  Sheep's wool is soft.

How to write 羊 in Chinese

Each box adds one stroke, in red. Write them in this order.