• 食たべ物もの — food
• 買かい物もの — shopping
• 生物せいぶつ — living creature
• 物体ぶったい — object, body
• 物語ものがたり — story
• 物質ぶっしつ — substance, matter

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物 combines the radical 牛 (うし, cow) with 勿, indicating a phonetic element. The character originally referred to something tangible, such as livestock, and later came to mean "thing" more broadly. It's an essential kanji in daily life and appears in many common compounds like 食べ物 and 買い物.

買かい物ものに行いきます。
I’m going shopping.

大たい切せつな物ものをなくしました。
I lost something important.