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cow's milk / CL: ,
HSK 2
jeans / CL: 條|条
HSK 5
variant of 牛屄
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  *牛* | 牛* | *牛
surname Niu
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  *牛* | 牛* | *牛
ox / cow / bull / CL: 條|条, 頭|头 / newton (abbr. for 牛頓|牛顿) / (slang) awesome
cowhide / leather / fig. flexible and tough / boasting / big talk
beef
ox; cattle / scalper of tickets etc / (dialect) to fail to show up / (dialect) to break a promise
butter / beef tallow
bull market
bull
water buffalo
Taurus (star sign) / Jinniu district of Chengdu city 成都市, Sichuan
snail / Taiwan pr. [gua1 niu2]
cattle and sheep / livestock
(coll.) leading light / true expert / badass
Big Dipper and Altair (astronomy)
bullfighting
Ox-Head, one of the two guardians of the underworld in Chinese mythology
ox head / ox-head shaped wine vessel
Ongniud banner or Ongnuud khoshuu in Chifeng 赤峰, Inner Mongolia
Altair (star) / Cowherd of the folk tale Cowherd and Weaving maid 牛郎織女|牛郎织女
morning glory (Pharbitis nil)
rhinoceros
evil monsters / (fig.) bad characters / (political) bad elements
milk cow / dairy cow
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
Sir Isaac Newton (1642-1727), British mathematician and physicist
calf / (coll.) lower-priced model of Lamborghini
Newton (name) / Sir Isaac Newton (1642-1727), British mathematician and physicist
newton (SI unit of force)
bison
kraft paper
Red Bull (energy drink)
Pyrenees mountains
China Mengniu Dairy Company Limited
burdock
dairy cattle
bezoar
clay ox / mound of earth on a dike (ready for emergency repairs)
Gyuumao
yak (Bos grunniens)
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
brisket (esp. Cantonese) / belly beef / spongy meat from cow's underside and neighboring ribs / erroneously translated as sirloin
oxen and horses / beasts of burden / CL: 隻|只
(coll.) haughty / overbearing / (economics) bullish
cowboy
to talk big / to shoot off one's mouth / to chat (dialect)
as numerous as the hairs of an ox (idiom) / innumerable / countless
bullfrog
manatee
Achyranthes bidentata (root used in Chinese medicine)
lit. one hair from nine oxen (idiom) / fig. a drop in the ocean
Oxford (city in England)
cattle pen
Longhorn beetle
ox hair (used as a metaphor for sth very numerous or sth fine and delicate)
croissant
cowpox
cowshed / makeshift detention center set up by Red Guards in the Cultural Revolution / (baseball) bullpen
gadfly (Tabanus bovinus)
(coll.) leading light / superstar / badass / (coll.) higher-priced model of Lamborghini
key point / crux / (old) Daoist (facetious)
lit. enough books to make a pack-ox sweat or to fill a house to the rafters (idiom); fig. many books
Cowherd of the folk tale Cowherd and Weaving maid 牛郎織女|牛郎织女 / Altair (star)
cowherd boy / (slang) male prostitute
awesome / capable (vulgar) / arrogant / cocky / bastard (vulgar)
extremely angry / infuriated
to see the ox already cut up into joints (idiom); extremely skilled / able to see through the problem at one glance
gulp
class of underachievers / dunces' class (Tw)
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
beef cattle (grown for meat)
takin (type of goat-antelope)
lit. old ox pulling a shabby cart (idiom) / fig. slow and inefficient
Altair (star) / Cowherd of the folk tale Cowherd and Weaving maid 牛郎織女|牛郎织女
bullock
pizzle / bull's penis (served as food)
buff (color)
chard (Beta vulgaris), a foliage beet
lit. an old ox licking its calf (idiom) / fig. (of parents) to dote on one's children
mulishness / obstinacy
cow's piss, horse's ulcer (idiom); worthless nonsense / insignificant
offspring of a bull and a female yak
don't use a sledgehammer on a nut / aquila non capit muscam
musk ox
variant of 牛屄
bison
pound cake
Taurus (constellation and sign of the zodiac)
bull
cow
ox tongue
omasum / beef tripe
Cinnamomum kanehirae / small-leaf camphor / stout camphor (indigenous to Taiwan)
mulishness / obstinacy
University of Oxford
porcino (Boletus edulis)

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