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charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *牛* | 牛* | *牛
ox / cow / bull / CL: 條|条, 頭|头 / newton (abbr. for 牛頓|牛顿) / (slang) awesome
HSK 3
milk cow / dairy cow
HSK 6
to talk big / to shoot off one's mouth / to chat (dialect)
HSK 7-9
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *牛* | 牛* | *牛
surname Niu
Taurus (star sign) / Jinniu district of Chengdu city 成都市, Sichuan
snail / Taiwan pr. [gua1 niu2]
manatee
bull
calf / (coll.) lower-priced model of Lamborghini
water buffalo
rhinoceros
ox; cattle / scalper of tickets etc / (dialect) to fail to show up / (dialect) to break a promise
Altair (star) / Cowherd of the folk tale Cowherd and Weaving maid 牛郎織女|牛郎织女
morning glory (Pharbitis nil)
dairy cattle
fig. people who cannot afford to buy their own house
sb who sells one's blood for a living
Japanese ardisia (Ardisia japonica)
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
musk ox
bison
Longhorn beetle
bullfighting
wagyu
bullock
clay ox / mound of earth on a dike (ready for emergency repairs)
beef cattle (grown for meat)
beefalo (cross between domestic cattle and bison)
(coll.) leading light / superstar / badass / (coll.) higher-priced model of Lamborghini
bull
Big Dipper and Altair (astronomy)
bison
bull
Angus, Scottish breed of beef cattle
cow
ancient yak of southeast China, also known as
China Mengniu Dairy Company Limited
(slang) really cool, awesome
one-on-one basketball game
three-on-three basketball game
Year 2, year of the Bull or Ox (e.g. 2009)
aurochs (Bos primigenius), extinct wild ox
heifer
to sack the home and lead off the cattle (proverb) / to strip of everything
yak (Bos grunniens)
to breathe heavily like an ox (idiom) / to huff and puff
offspring of a bull and a female yak
cash cow
(slang) extreme extrovert; socially fearless person (abbr. for 社交牛逼症)
Red Bull (energy drink)
"shopping coupon scalper", sb who sells unwanted or returned shopping coupons to others for a profit
ox harnessed for plowing


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