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  *牛* | 牛* | *牛
ox / cow / bull / CL: 條|条, 頭|头 / newton (abbr. for 牛頓|牛顿) / (slang) awesome
HSK 3
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  *丑* | 丑* | *丑
clown / 2nd earthly branch: 1-3 a.m., 12th solar month (6th January to 3rd February), year of the Ox / ancient Chinese compass point: 30°
HSK 5
(ox etc) tongue (as food) / (dialect) elocution; articulation
Ox-Head, one of the two guardians of the underworld in Chinese mythology
ox head / ox-head shaped wine vessel
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  *鞅* | 鞅* | *鞅
wooden yoke for a draft ox
ox; cattle / scalper of tickets etc / (dialect) to fail to show up / (dialect) to break a promise
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  *犉* | 犉* | *犉
ox
ox hair (used as a metaphor for sth very numerous or sth fine and delicate)
lit. as numerous as the hairs of an ox (idiom) / fig. innumerable; countless
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  *荦* | 荦* | *荦
brindled ox / clear / eminent
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  *楅* | 楅* | *楅
ox yoke placed on the horns
lit. enough books to make a pack-ox sweat or to fill a house to the rafters (idiom); fig. many books
lit. a clay ox enters the sea (idiom); fig. to disappear with no hope of returning
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  *犄* | 犄* | *犄
ox-horns / wing of an army
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  *牼* | 牼* | *牼
shank bone of ox
charactercopyAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *犛* | 犛* | *犛
black ox / yak
to see the ox already cut up into joints (idiom); extremely skilled / able to see through the problem at one glance
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  *犎* | 犎* | *犎
zebu / indicus cattle / humped ox
clay ox / mound of earth on a dike (ready for emergency repairs)
lit. old ox pulling a shabby cart (idiom) / fig. slow and inefficient
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  *犨* | 犨* | *犨
panting of cow / grunting of ox
lit. to crawl like a snail and plod along like an old ox (idiom) / fig. to move at a snail's pace / to make slow progress
lit. an old ox licking its calf (idiom) / fig. (of parents) to dote on one's children
ox tongue
extraordinary strength / super strong / strong as an ox
Year 2, year of the Bull or Ox (e.g. 2009)
to breathe heavily like an ox (idiom) / to huff and puff
lit. to work like an ox, to work like a horse; fig. to work extremely hard
musk ox
birth year as designated by animal symbols (mouse, ox, tiger etc)
aurochs (Bos primigenius), extinct wild ox
(Tw) (coll.) earthquake (According to a folk tale, earthquakes are caused by the occasional movements of an ox that lives under the earth.)
lit. to try to make an ox drink by forcing its head down to the water (idiom) / fig. to try to impose one's will on sb
ox tongue pastry, oval Guangdong pastry made of fried dough, resembling an ox tongue
clay ox, wooden horse (idiom); shape without substance / worthless object
Year of the Ox or Bull (e.g. 2009)
wooden yoke for a draft ox
to work like a horse and toil like an ox / fig. to slave for sb
ox harnessed for plowing


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