牛
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Definitions
- 1. ox
- 2. cow
- 3. bull
- 4. (slang) awesome
Words Containing 牛
to talk big
milk cow
jeans
cow's milk
one-on-one basketball game
T-bone steak
three-on-three basketball game
without milk
Year 2, year of the Bull or Ox (e.g. 2009)
lit. one hair from nine oxen (idiom)
tremendous strength (idiom)
dairy cattle
margarine
Funiu mountain range in southwest Henan, an eastern extension of Qinling range 秦嶺山脈|秦岭山脉[qín lǐng shān mài], Shaanxi
lit. to work like an ox, to work like a horse; fig. to work extremely hard
bull
lit. newborn calves do not fear tigers (idiom)
lit. why use a pole-ax to slaughter a chicken? (idiom)
aurochs (Bos primigenius), extinct wild ox
cow from Wu is terrified by the moon, mistaking it for the sun
to resort to bragging and flattering
to boast
to call sth a cow or a horse (idiom); it doesn't matter what you call it
to call sth a cow or a horse (idiom); it doesn't matter what you call it
clay ox
clay ox, wooden horse (idiom); shape without substance
as numerous as the hairs of an ox (idiom)
(coll.) leading light
Longhorn beetle
dairy farm
lit. to play the lute to a cow (idiom)
calf
veal
heifer
to give a small demonstration of one's impressive skills (idiom)
to abandon armed struggle and return to raising cattle (idiom)
to sack the home and lead off the cattle (proverb)
class of underachievers
Big Dipper and Altair (astronomy)
margarine
slaughter the cattle and butcher the sheep
don't use a sledgehammer on a nut
Pyrenees mountains
Pyrenees mountains
yak (Bos grunniens)
to breathe heavily like an ox (idiom)
extremely angry
water buffalo
lit. enough books to make a pack-ox sweat or to fill a house to the rafters (idiom); fig. many books
sirloin steak
lit. a clay ox enters the sea (idiom); fig. to disappear with no hope of returning
manatee
fig. people who cannot afford to buy their own house
beef steak
lit. to try to make an ox drink by forcing its head down to the water (idiom)
(idiom) you can lead a horse to water but you cannot make it drink
(coll.) leading light
cowboy
denim
see 小試牛刀|小试牛刀[xiǎo shì niú dāo]
awesome
treeless hills (idiom)
bull market
Year of the Ox or Bull (e.g. 2009)
see 猴年馬月|猴年马月[hóu nián mǎ yuè]
mulishness
mulishness
see 牛性[niú xìng]
steak
steakhouse
steakhouse
(beef) tenderloin
Cinnamomum kanehirae
Oxbridge
cattle pen
ox hair (used as a metaphor for sth very numerous or sth fine and delicate)
(coll.) haughty
butter
pound cake
avocado (Persea americana)
Oxford (city in England)
University of Oxford
Oxfordshire (English county)
bovine spongiform encephalopathy, BSE
cow's piss, horse's ulcer (idiom); worthless nonsense
calf
cowpox
cow pox
omasum
cowhide
psoriasis
kraft paper
buff (color)
chard (Beta vulgaris), a foliage beet
taurine
wire grass (Eleusine indica)
newton meter (Nm)
cattle and sheep
beef
beef meatballs
dried beef
beef noodle soup
tripe
porcino (Boletus edulis)
(bird species of China) eastern cattle egret (Bubulcus coromandus)
sirloin (beef joint)
(coll.) bullheaded
ox tongue pastry, oval Guangdong pastry made of fried dough, resembling an ox tongue
bullheadedness
brisket (esp. Cantonese)
hyssop (Hyssopus officinalis)
oregano (Origanum vulgare)
ox tongue
burdock
gadfly (Tabanus bovinus)
bullfrog
couple living in destitute misery (idiom)
cow horn
croissant
lit. to hang one's books on cow horns (idiom)
Cayenne pepper
croissant
yoke
Niu'e Reef, disputed territory in the South China Sea, claimed by China, Vietnam and the Philippines, aka Whitsun Reef or Julian Felipe Reef
Cowherd of the folk tale Cowherd and Weaving maid 牛郎織女|牛郎织女
Cowherd and Weaving maid (characters in folk story)
cow
wooden yoke for a draft ox
pizzle
Newton (name)
Newtonian mechanics
newton meter, unit of torque (symbol: N⋅m)
Ox-Head, one of the two guardians of the underworld in Chinese mythology
see 驢唇不對馬嘴|驴唇不对马嘴[lu:2 chún bù duì mǎ zuǐ]
(bird species of China) bull-headed shrike (Lanius bucephalus)
bull terrier
bulldog
gulp
oxen and horses
cow and famous steed at the same trough (idiom); fig. the common and the great are treated alike
cow and famous steed at the same trough (idiom); fig. the common and the great are treated alike
evil monsters
Gyuumao
bezoar
key point
bull
bull
cow
Altair (star)
Pharbitis, genus of herbaceous plants including Morning glory 牽牛|牵牛 (Pharbitis nil)
Altair (star)
white-edged morning glory
rhinoceros
bullock
bison
offspring of a bull and a female yak
ancient yak of southeast China, also known as 犩[wéi]
mad cow disease
to work like a horse and toil like an ox
mad cow disease (bovine spongiform encephalopathy)
beefalo (cross between domestic cattle and bison)
to see the ox already cut up into joints (idiom); extremely skilled
(slang) really cool, awesome
(neologism c. 2021) gregariousness
Red Bull (energy drink)
chard (Beta vulgaris), a foliage beet
pure milk
Japanese ardisia (Ardisia japonica)
porcino (Boletus edulis)
takin (type of goat-antelope)
Ongniud banner or Ongnuud khoshuu in Chifeng 赤峰[chì fēng], Inner Mongolia
Ongniud banner or Ongnuud khoshuu in Chifeng 赤峰[chì fēng], Inner Mongolia
fig. a May-December relationship
see 老牛破車|老牛破车[lǎo niú pò chē]
fig. slow and inefficient
fig. (of parents) to dote on one's children
Sir Isaac Newton (1642-1727), British mathematician and physicist
beef with broccoli
beef cattle (grown for meat)
fillet steak
China Mengniu Dairy Company Limited
snail
fig. to move at a snail's pace
sb who sells one's blood for a living
with milk
\shopping coupon scalper\, sb who sells unwanted or returned shopping coupons to others for a profit
bison
Taurus (star sign)
Jinniu district of Chengdu city 成都市[chéng dū shì], Sichuan
Taurus (constellation and sign of the zodiac)
fillet beef served sizzling on a hot iron plate
beef grilled on a hot iron plate
lit. honing a bull's horn; fig. to waste time on an insoluble or insignificant problem
lit. to penetrate into a bull's horn (idiom); fig. to waste time on an insoluble or insignificant problem
beef with green peppers
ox harnessed for plowing
to be completely unrelated to one another (idiom)
bullfighting
matador