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HSK
cow's milk / CL: ,
HSK 1
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *牛* | 牛* | *牛
ox / cow / bull / CL: 條|条, 頭|头 / newton (abbr. for 牛頓|牛顿) / (slang) awesome
HSK 3
jeans / CL: 條|条
HSK 5
milk cow / dairy cow
HSK 6
to talk big / to shoot off one's mouth / to chat (dialect)
HSK 7-9
lit. one hair from nine oxen (idiom) / fig. a drop in the ocean
snail / Taiwan pr. [gua1 niu2]
University of Oxford
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *牛* | 牛* | *牛
surname Niu
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
oregano (Origanum vulgare) / marjoram
Cowherd and Weaving maid (characters in folk story) / separated lovers / Altair and Vega (stars)
cow's milk
Red Bull (energy drink)
Altair (star) / Cowherd of the folk tale Cowherd and Weaving maid 牛郎織女|牛郎织女
morning glory (Pharbitis nil)
cow and famous steed at the same trough (idiom); fig. the common and the great are treated alike / also written 牛驥同皂|牛骥同皂
tremendous strength (idiom)
Oxbridge / Cambridge and Oxford
Pyrenees mountains
Altair (star) / Cowherd of the folk tale Cowherd and Weaving maid 牛郎織女|牛郎织女
croissant
(beef) tenderloin
Newton (name) / Sir Isaac Newton (1642-1727), British mathematician and physicist
newton (SI unit of force)
Ox-Head, one of the two guardians of the underworld in Chinese mythology
ox head / ox-head shaped wine vessel
bull
cowhide / leather / fig. flexible and tough / boasting / big talk
Taurus (constellation and sign of the zodiac)
chard (Beta vulgaris)
beef
steak
ox tongue pastry, oval Guangdong pastry made of fried dough, resembling an ox tongue
evil monsters / (fig.) bad characters / (political) bad elements
Taurus (star sign) / Jinniu district of Chengdu city 成都市, Sichuan
water buffalo
rhinoceros
cowboy
Oxford (city in England)
calf / (coll.) lower-priced model of Lamborghini
(Tw) (coll.) earthquake (According to a folk tale, earthquakes are caused by the occasional movements of an ox that lives under the earth.)
brisket (esp. Cantonese) / belly beef / spongy meat from cow's underside and neighboring ribs / erroneously translated as sirloin
bullfrog
bull
to be the acknowledged leader (from the custom of a prince holding a plate on which lay the severed ears of a sacrificial bull at an alliance ceremony)
bull market
cattle pen
Cowherd of the folk tale Cowherd and Weaving maid 牛郎織女|牛郎织女 / Altair (star)
cowherd boy / (slang) male prostitute
Gyuumao
bezoar
kraft paper
oxen and horses; beasts of burden / (fig.) drudge; laborer
ox; cattle / scalper of tickets etc / (dialect) to fail to show up / (dialect) to break a promise
Longhorn beetle
cattle and sheep / livestock
butter / beef tallow
Ongniud banner or Ongnuud khoshuu in Chifeng 赤峰, Inner Mongolia
(coll.) leading light / true expert / badass
Sir Isaac Newton (1642-1727), British mathematician and physicist
manatee
yak (Bos grunniens)
bison
burdock (Arctium lappa)
cow horn
key point / crux / (old) Daoist (facetious)
(coll.) haughty / overbearing / (economics) bullish
ox hair (used as a metaphor for sth very numerous or sth fine and delicate)
pizzle / bull's penis (served as food)
Achyranthes bidentata (root used in Chinese medicine)
Big Dipper and Altair (astronomy)
bullfighting
wagyu
cowpox
cowshed / makeshift detention center set up by Red Guards in the Cultural Revolution / (baseball) bullpen
Cayenne pepper / red pepper / chili
variant of 牛屄
porcino (Boletus edulis)
lit. enough books to make a pack-ox sweat or to fill a house to the rafters (idiom); fig. many books
dairy cattle
gulp
lit. to penetrate into a bull's horn (idiom); fig. to waste time on an insoluble or insignificant problem / to bash one's head against a brick wall / a wild goose chase / a blind alley / to split hairs
lit. a clay ox enters the sea (idiom); fig. to disappear with no hope of returning
chard (Beta vulgaris)
lit. to play the lute to a cow (idiom) / fig. offering a treat to an unappreciative audience / to cast pearls before swine / caviar to the general / to preach to deaf ears / to talk over sb's head
gadfly (Tabanus bovinus)
takin (type of goat-antelope)
to see the ox already cut up into joints (idiom); extremely skilled / able to see through the problem at one glance
Pyrenees mountains
cow's piss, horse's ulcer (idiom); worthless nonsense / insignificant
offspring of a bull and a female yak
clay ox / mound of earth on a dike (ready for emergency repairs)
lit. old ox pulling a shabby cart (idiom) / fig. slow and inefficient
mulishness / obstinacy
beef cattle (grown for meat)
bullock
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

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