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  *牛* | 牛* | *牛
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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
(idiom) extremely angry; infuriated
denim
Toreador Song (Votre toast, je peux vous le rendre), famous aria from opera Carmen 卡門|卡门 by Georges Bizet
beef
avocado (Persea americana) / shea nut (Vitellaria paradoxa)
bull
see 牛屄 (euphemistic synonym of 牛屄)
(coll.) leading light / superstar / badass / (coll.) higher-priced model of Lamborghini
lit. newborn calves do not fear tigers (idiom) / fig. the young are fearless
Year 2, year of the Bull or Ox (e.g. 2009)
to talk big / to shoot off one's mouth / to chat (dialect)
HSK 7-9
bull market
yoke
toffee; chewy caramel candy
bezoar
to boast / to talk big
evil monsters / (fig.) bad characters / (political) bad elements
lit. one hair from nine oxen (idiom) / fig. a drop in the ocean
cattle and sheep / livestock
Cowherd of the folk tale Cowherd and Weaving maid 牛郎織女|牛郎织女 / Altair (star)
cowherd boy / (slang) male prostitute
water buffalo
don't use a sledgehammer on a nut / aquila non capit muscam
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
tremendous strength (idiom)
to give a small demonstration of one's impressive skills (idiom)
Oxford (city in England)
Oxfordshire (English county)
mad cow disease / bovine spongiform encephalopathy, BSE
(beef) tenderloin
burdock (Arctium lappa)
Newtonian mechanics
Cowherd and Weaving maid (characters in folk story) / separated lovers / Altair and Vega (stars)
lit. honing a bull's horn; 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 / same as idiom 鑽牛角尖|钻牛角尖
beef meatballs
cow horn
beef grilled on a hot iron plate
cow's milk / CL: ,
HSK 1
steakhouse
psoriasis
taurine
(slang) extreme extrovert; socially fearless person (abbr. for 社交牛逼症)
bison
margarine
steakhouse / chophouse
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
Gyuumao
dairy cattle
lit. a clay ox enters the sea (idiom); fig. to disappear with no hope of returning
beef noodle soup
Ox-Head, one of the two guardians of the underworld in Chinese mythology
ox head / ox-head shaped wine vessel
cow
omasum / beef tripe
cow / cattle
Altair (star) / Cowherd of the folk tale Cowherd and Weaving maid 牛郎織女|牛郎织女
morning glory (Pharbitis nil)
Red Bull (energy drink)
pure milk
bullfrog
lit. to work like an ox, to work like a horse; fig. to work extremely hard
clay ox, wooden horse (idiom); shape without substance / worthless object
(coll.) leading light / true expert / badass
butter / beef tallow
fatty beef slices (esp. for hot pot)
(loanword) nougat
cowpox
croissant
sb who sells one's blood for a living
steak
ox hair (used as a metaphor for sth very numerous or sth fine and delicate)
cowhide / leather / fig. flexible and tough / boasting / big talk
rhinoceros
Cayenne pepper / red pepper / chili
Pyrenees mountains
to breathe heavily like an ox (idiom) / to huff and puff
University of Oxford
lit. as numerous as the hairs of an ox (idiom) / fig. innumerable; countless
sirloin steak
cowshed / makeshift detention center set up by Red Guards in the Cultural Revolution / (baseball) bullpen
(coll.) haughty / overbearing / (economics) bullish
chard (Beta vulgaris)
Big Dipper and Altair (astronomy)
Altair (star) / Cowherd of the folk tale Cowherd and Weaving maid 牛郎織女|牛郎织女
T-bone steak
(neologism c. 2021) (slang) extreme gregariousness; over-the-top confidence in social interactions
Taurus (constellation and sign of the zodiac)
cow's milk
porcino (Boletus edulis)
Achyranthes bidentata (root used in Chinese medicine)
Newton (name) / Sir Isaac Newton (1642-1727), British mathematician and physicist
newton (SI unit of force)
(bird species of China) eastern cattle egret (Bubulcus coromandus)
pizzle / bull's penis (served as food)
bullock
(slang) really cool, awesome

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