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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
Achyranthes bidentata (root used in Chinese medicine)
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *牛* | 牛* | *牛
surname Niu
chard (Beta vulgaris)
variant of 牛屄
denim
omasum / beef tripe
Newtonian mechanics
Gyuumao
porcino (Boletus edulis)
beef
cow horn
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
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
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
pound cake
bull market
cow's milk
cattle pen
Cowherd and Weaving maid (characters in folk story) / separated lovers / Altair and Vega (stars)
bezoar
yoke
toffee; chewy caramel candy
psoriasis
(dialect) penis
oxen and horses; beasts of burden / (fig.) drudge; laborer
taurine
(coll.) leading light / true expert / badass
burdock (Arctium lappa)
University of Oxford
bullfrog
lit. to hang one's books on cow horns (idiom) / fig. to be diligent in one's studies
evil monsters / (fig.) bad characters / (political) bad elements
(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
ox tongue
cow's piss, horse's ulcer (idiom); worthless nonsense / insignificant
mulishness / obstinacy
gulp
key point / crux / (old) Daoist (facetious)
gadfly (Tabanus bovinus)
wooden yoke for a draft ox
treeless hills (idiom)
cowpox
croissant
avocado (Persea americana) / shea nut (Vitellaria paradoxa)
pizzle / bull's penis (served as food)
ox tongue pastry, oval Guangdong pastry made of fried dough, resembling an ox tongue
steakhouse
dried beef / jerky / charqui
beef meatballs
variant of 牛屄
cattle and sheep / livestock
oregano (Origanum vulgare) / marjoram
(beef) tenderloin
hyssop (Hyssopus officinalis)
steakhouse / chophouse
buff (color)
wire grass (Eleusine indica)
Cayenne pepper / red pepper / chili
cow / cattle
bull terrier
cow and famous steed at the same trough (idiom); fig. the common and the great are treated alike
awesome / capable (vulgar) / arrogant / cocky / bastard (vulgar)
beef noodle soup
beef tripe
(bird species of China) bull-headed shrike (Lanius bucephalus)
bulldog
(idiom) you can lead a horse to water but you cannot make it drink
Year of the Ox or Bull (e.g. 2009)
see 牛性
Cinnamomum kanehirae / small-leaf camphor / stout camphor (indigenous to Taiwan)
Oxbridge / Cambridge and Oxford
(coll.) haughty / overbearing / (economics) bullish
Oxfordshire (English county)
bovine spongiform encephalopathy, BSE / mad cow disease
cow pox
newton meter (Nm)

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