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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
Achyranthes bidentata (root used in Chinese medicine)
to resort to bragging and flattering
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *牛* | 牛* | *牛
surname Niu
chard (Beta vulgaris)
variant of 牛屄
denim
omasum / beef tripe
Newtonian mechanics
bull
Taurus (star sign) / Jinniu district of Chengdu city 成都市, Sichuan
Gyuumao
porcino (Boletus edulis)
snail / Taiwan pr. [gua1 niu2]
beef
Jinniu district of Chengdu city 成都市, Sichuan
manatee
cow horn
bull
calf / (coll.) lower-priced model of Lamborghini
water buffalo
Taurus (constellation and sign of the zodiac)
sirloin (beef joint)
bullheadedness / stubborn
butter / beef tallow
cowboy
Ox-Head, one of the two guardians of the underworld in Chinese mythology
ox head / ox-head shaped wine vessel
cowhide / leather / fig. flexible and tough / boasting / big talk
rhinoceros
ox; cattle / scalper of tickets etc / (dialect) to fail to show up / (dialect) to break a promise
cowshed / makeshift detention center set up by Red Guards in the Cultural Revolution / (baseball) bullpen
kraft paper
steak
brisket (esp. Cantonese) / belly beef / spongy meat from cow's underside and neighboring ribs / erroneously translated as sirloin
Oxford (city in England)
calf
Altair (star) / Cowherd of the folk tale Cowherd and Weaving maid 牛郎織女|牛郎织女
morning glory (Pharbitis nil)
Cowherd of the folk tale Cowherd and Weaving maid 牛郎織女|牛郎织女 / Altair (star)
cowherd boy / (slang) male prostitute
mulishness / obstinacy
(loanword) nougat
matador / toreador / bullfighter
pound cake
bull market
dairy cattle
cow's milk
Toreador Song (Votre toast, je peux vous le rendre), famous aria from opera Carmen 卡門|卡门 by Georges Bizet
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
white-edged morning glory
lit. newborn calves do not fear tigers (idiom) / fig. the young are fearless
cattle pen
lit. to work like an ox, to work like a horse; fig. to work extremely hard
fig. people who cannot afford to buy their own house
Cowherd and Weaving maid (characters in folk story) / separated lovers / Altair and Vega (stars)
to boast / to talk big
bezoar
sb who sells one's blood for a living
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
class of underachievers / dunces' class (Tw)
yoke
Pyrenees mountains
toffee; chewy caramel candy
Pyrenees mountains
Japanese ardisia (Ardisia japonica)
to be completely unrelated to one another (idiom) / irrelevant
psoriasis
to give a small demonstration of one's impressive skills (idiom)
(dialect) penis
oxen and horses; beasts of burden / (fig.) drudge; laborer
don't use a sledgehammer on a nut / aquila non capit muscam
Altair (star) / Cowherd of the folk tale Cowherd and Weaving maid 牛郎織女|牛郎织女
Ongniud banner or Ongnuud khoshuu in Chifeng 赤峰, Inner Mongolia
lit. enough books to make a pack-ox sweat or to fill a house to the rafters (idiom); fig. many books
taurine
(coll.) leading light / true expert / badass
takin (type of goat-antelope)
burdock (Arctium lappa)
University of Oxford
fillet steak
bullfrog
to see the ox already cut up into joints (idiom); extremely skilled / able to see through the problem at one glance
lit. to hang one's books on cow horns (idiom) / fig. to be diligent in one's studies
musk ox
evil monsters / (fig.) bad characters / (political) bad elements
lit. one hair from nine oxen (idiom) / fig. a drop in the ocean
(coll.) bullheaded / obstinate
couple living in destitute misery (idiom)
ox hair (used as a metaphor for sth very numerous or sth fine and delicate)
(bird species of China) eastern cattle egret (Bubulcus coromandus)
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
(idiom) extremely angry; infuriated
ox tongue
tremendous strength (idiom)

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