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