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  *牛* | 牛* | *牛
surname Niu
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *牛* | 牛* | *牛
ox / cow / bull / CL: 條|条, 頭|头 / newton (abbr. for 牛頓|牛顿) / (slang) awesome
HSK 3
denim
beef
avocado (Persea americana) / shea nut (Vitellaria paradoxa)
see 牛屄 (euphemistic synonym of 牛屄)
bull market
toffee; chewy caramel candy
evil monsters / (fig.) bad characters / (political) bad elements
cattle and sheep / livestock
Newtonian mechanics
Cowherd of the folk tale Cowherd and Weaving maid 牛郎織女|牛郎织女 / Altair (star)
cowherd boy / (slang) male prostitute
dried beef; beef jerky
Oxford (city in England)
Oxfordshire (English county)
(beef) tenderloin
burdock (Arctium lappa)
jeans / CL: 條|条
HSK 5
beef meatballs
cow horn
cow's milk / CL: ,
HSK 1
taurine
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
Gyuumao
(coll.) haughty / overbearing / (economics) bullish
(loanword) nougat
bullheadedness / stubborn
bullfrog
(coll.) leading light / true expert / badass
butter / beef tallow
beef noodle soup
yoke
cowpox
croissant
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
University of Oxford
bezoar
Cayenne pepper / red pepper / chili
cow / cattle
cowshed / makeshift detention center set up by Red Guards in the Cultural Revolution / (baseball) bullpen
lit. to hang one's books on cow horns (idiom) / fig. to be diligent in one's studies
gulp
Cowherd and Weaving maid (characters in folk story) / separated lovers / Altair and Vega (stars)
oxen and horses; beasts of burden / (fig.) drudge; laborer
bulldog
cow's milk
psoriasis
porcino (Boletus edulis)
Achyranthes bidentata (root used in Chinese medicine)
pizzle / bull's penis (served as food)
see 牛性
ox tongue pastry, oval Guangdong pastry made of fried dough, resembling an ox tongue
ox tongue
wire grass (Eleusine indica)
mulishness / obstinacy
cow pox
brisket (esp. Cantonese) / belly beef / spongy meat from cow's underside and neighboring ribs / erroneously translated as sirloin
Ox-Head, one of the two guardians of the underworld in Chinese mythology
ox head / ox-head shaped wine vessel
(idiom) you can lead a horse to water but you cannot make it drink
Year of the Ox or Bull (e.g. 2009)
gadfly (Tabanus bovinus)
croissant
Oxbridge / Cambridge and Oxford
newton meter (Nm)
oregano (Origanum vulgare) / marjoram
(dialect) penis
omasum / beef tripe
(coll.) bullheaded / obstinate
cow and famous steed at the same trough (idiom); fig. the common and the great are treated alike
key point / crux / (old) Daoist (facetious)
cowboy
(bird species of China) eastern cattle egret (Bubulcus coromandus)
Cinnamomum kanehirae / small-leaf camphor / stout camphor (indigenous to Taiwan)
cattle pen
kraft paper
newton meter, unit of torque (symbol: N⋅m)
Newton (name) / Sir Isaac Newton (1642-1727), British mathematician and physicist
newton (SI unit of force)
(dialect) beef steak
steakhouse / chophouse
chard (Beta vulgaris)
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
steakhouse
couple living in destitute misery (idiom)
Niu'e Reef, disputed territory in the South China Sea, claimed by China, Vietnam and the Philippines, aka Whitsun Reef or Julian Felipe Reef
bull terrier
mulishness / obstinacy
calf
beef tripe
wooden yoke for a draft ox
cow's piss, horse's ulcer (idiom); worthless nonsense / insignificant
sirloin (beef joint)
hyssop (Hyssopus officinalis)

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