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cow's milk / CL: ,
HSK 1
charactercopypronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *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
beef
snail / Taiwan pr. [gua1 niu2]
cowhide / leather / fig. flexible and tough / boasting / big talk
denim
water buffalo
ox hair (used as a metaphor for sth very numerous or sth fine and delicate)
rhinoceros
(coll.) haughty / overbearing / (economics) bullish
bull
taurine
variant of 牛屄
Ox-Head, one of the two guardians of the underworld in Chinese mythology
ox head / ox-head shaped wine vessel
steak
lit. a clay ox enters the sea (idiom); fig. to disappear with no hope of returning
bullfrog
dairy cattle
lit. newborn calves do not fear tigers (idiom) / fig. the young are fearless
ox tongue
brisket (esp. Cantonese) / belly beef / spongy meat from cow's underside and neighboring ribs / erroneously translated as sirloin
Gyuumao
as numerous as the hairs of an ox (idiom) / innumerable / countless
kraft paper
Sir Isaac Newton (1642-1727), British mathematician and physicist
manatee
University of Oxford
porcino (Boletus edulis)
lit. enough books to make a pack-ox sweat or to fill a house to the rafters (idiom); fig. many books
cow horn
charactercopypronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *牛* | 牛* | *牛
surname Niu
Newton (name) / Sir Isaac Newton (1642-1727), British mathematician and physicist
newton (SI unit of force)
calf / (coll.) lower-priced model of Lamborghini
bullheadedness / stubborn
Taurus (constellation and sign of the zodiac)
psoriasis
Oxford (city in England)
cowboy
butter / beef tallow
Pyrenees mountains
ox; cattle / scalper of tickets etc / (dialect) to fail to show up / (dialect) to break a promise
gulp
calf
(loanword) nougat
matador / toreador / bullfighter
Taurus (star sign) / Jinniu district of Chengdu city 成都市, Sichuan
(dialect) penis
cowshed / makeshift detention center set up by Red Guards in the Cultural Revolution / (baseball) bullpen
bull market
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
takin (type of goat-antelope)
to boast / to talk big
toffee; chewy caramel candy
tremendous strength (idiom)
lit. to work like an ox, to work like a horse; fig. to work extremely hard
cattle pen
bezoar
to give a small demonstration of one's impressive skills (idiom)
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)
class of underachievers / dunces' class (Tw)
to be completely unrelated to one another (idiom) / irrelevant
mad cow disease (bovine spongiform encephalopathy)
Altair (star) / Cowherd of the folk tale Cowherd and Weaving maid 牛郎織女|牛郎织女
Jinniu district of Chengdu city 成都市, Sichuan
yoke
Ongniud banner or Ongnuud khoshuu in Chifeng 赤峰, Inner Mongolia
white-edged morning glory
fig. people who cannot afford to buy their own house
oxen and horses / beasts of burden / CL: 隻|只
Altair (star) / Cowherd of the folk tale Cowherd and Weaving maid 牛郎織女|牛郎织女
morning glory (Pharbitis nil)
(coll.) leading light / true expert / badass
mulishness / obstinacy
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
Cowherd of the folk tale Cowherd and Weaving maid 牛郎織女|牛郎织女 / Altair (star)
cowherd boy / (slang) male prostitute
to see the ox already cut up into joints (idiom); extremely skilled / able to see through the problem at one glance
(idiom) extremely angry; infuriated
Cowherd and Weaving maid (characters in folk story) / separated lovers / Altair and Vega (stars)
(coll.) bullheaded / obstinate
evil monsters / (fig.) bad characters / (political) bad elements
clay ox / mound of earth on a dike (ready for emergency repairs)
to breathe heavily like an ox (idiom) / to huff and puff
bullfighting
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
couple living in destitute misery (idiom)
don't use a sledgehammer on a nut / aquila non capit muscam
wagyu
Japanese ardisia (Ardisia japonica)
sb who sells one's blood for a living
lit. why use a pole-ax to slaughter a chicken? (idiom) / fig. to waste effort on a trifling matter / also written 殺雞焉用牛刀|杀鸡焉用牛刀
(bird species of China) eastern cattle egret (Bubulcus coromandus)

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