物wù

Modern simplified form (簡體). 物 (wù, "thing") is composed of 牛 (cow) and 勿 (a pictograph of a blade), together representing a "thing" or object in the world. The character appears in compounds such as 动物 (animal), 植物 (plant), and 物理 (physics), indicating its broad usage as a suffix for "matter" or "substance". Though simplified, the form remains identical to the traditional, keeping the ancient combination of cow and blade intact.