牛 (niú) is Kangxi radical no. 93, “cow; ox”. In this form it is written with 4 strokes.
As a radical, 牛 (niú) is the part a dictionary files these characters under. Often it hints at the meaning - “cow” - but sometimes it is only a shape that the character happened to share.
The characters range from 4 to 10 strokes. 1 of them already appear in HSK 3.0 levels 1–2, and 1 has a full word page of its own.
Good ones to start with: 牛 (niú) cow / bull / ox, 物 (wù) thing, 特 (tè) special.
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