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

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