firm / sturdy / fold (for animals) / sacrifice / prison

= + : Sir Lancelot (l) keeps a bull (牛)in the aorta's kitchen (ao2) by imprisoning (牢) it in a very sturdy (牢) graduation cap (宀).

牢 character breakdown

"roof" radical (Kangxi radical 40), occurring in 家, 定, 安 etc, referred to as 寶蓋|宝盖[bao3 gai4]

= + : Mnemonic symbol: the strokes of this character look like a graduation cap (宀). Marilyn Monroe (mi-) wants to go to the anthill after her graduation from university. In the anthill's kitchen (an2), her friends snatch away her graduation cap (宀), and instead put a cooking top (冖) and a petal leaf (丶) on her head.
surname Niu
ox / cow / bull / CL:條|条[tiao2],頭|头[tou2] / newton (abbr. for 牛頓|牛顿[niu2 dun4]) / (slang) awesome

= 𠂉 + : A bull has been locked to a big cross in the outhouse's kitchen, and Nefertiti has the key. She promises to free the bull if he pledges allegiance to her leadership.

Characters with 牢 as component

see 囒哰[lan2 lao2], confused talk

Words with 牢

prison / dungeon
lit. to mend the pen after sheep are lost (idiom) / fig. to act belatedly / better late than never / to lock the stable door after the horse has bolted
see 嘴上沒毛,辦事不牢|嘴上没毛,办事不牢[zui3 shang4 mei2 mao2 , ban4 shi4 bu4 lao2]
tight-lipped
to do prison time (Tw)
(in ancient times) sacrificial animal (cow, sheep or pig)
to immobilize with a lasso / to be trapped in the stock market

Sentences with 牢

牢 currently does not appear in any sentence.