牛 niú

1. niú noun an ox; a cow; a bull
   Domain: Modern Chinese 现代汉语 , Subdomain: Nature , Concept: Animal 动物
   Notes: (Guoyu '牛' n 1; Unihan '牛')
2. niú proper noun Niu
   Domain: Modern Chinese 现代汉语 , Subdomain: Names , Concept: Surname 姓氏
   Notes: (Guoyu '牛' n 4)
3. niú noun Kangxi radical 93
   Domain: Modern Chinese 现代汉语 , Subdomain: Radicals
   Notes: (ABC back cover; GHC p. 7; Guoyu '牛' n 3; Unihan '牛')
4. niú proper noun Taurus
   Domain: Modern Chinese 现代汉语 , Subdomain: Astronomy , Concept: Constellation 星座
   Notes: (Guoyu '牛' n 2)
5. niú adjective stubborn
   Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
   Notes: (Guoyu '牛' adj)

Contained in

• 鸡尸牛后(雞尸牛後) chicken body and ox buttocks; better to be the leader of a small team than an unimportant person in a large team
• 狂牛病 mad cow disease; bovine spongiform encephalopathy, BSE
• 小牛 calf
• 割鸡焉用牛刀(割雞焉用牛刀) why use a pole-ax to slaughter a chicken?; to waste effort on a trifling matter
• 牤牛 bull
• 天牛 Longhorn beetle
• 老牛舐犊(老牛舐犢) an old ox licking its calf; (of parents) to dote on one's children
• 做牛做马(做牛做馬) to work like an ox, to work like a horse; to work extremely hard
• 丁骨牛排 T-bone steak
• 老牛破车(老牛破車) old ox pulling a shabby cart; slow and inefficient
• 牛痘 cowpox
• 牛屄 awesome; capable; arrogant; cocky; bastard
• 牛魔王 Gyuumao; Bull Demon King; Ox-King
• 牛角挂书(牛角掛書) to hang one's books on cow horns; to be diligent in one's studies
• 野牛 wild buffalo
• 家牛 cattle; domestic cattle
• 牛肉 beef
• 对牛弹琴(對牛彈琴) to play the lute to a cow; offering a treat to an unappreciative audience; to cast pearls before swine; caviar to the general; to preach to deaf ears
• 红牛皮菜(紅牛皮菜) chard (Beta vulgaris)
• 青椒牛柳 beef with green peppers
• 金牛座 Taurus
• 牛山濯濯 treeless hills
• 牛肉丸 beef meatballs
• 吴牛见月(吳牛見月) cow from Wu is terrified by the moon, mistaking it for the sun
• 公牛 bull
• 牛马(牛馬) oxen and horses; beasts of burden
• 牛顿环(牛頓環) Newton's rings
• 地牛翻身 earthquake
• 小试牛刀(小試牛刀) to give a small demonstration of one's impressive skills
• 牛羊 cattle and sheep; livestock
• 牯牛 a bull
• 美味牛肝菌 porcino (Boletus edulis)
• 无壳蜗牛(無殼蝸牛) people who cannot afford to buy their own house
• 牛头犬(牛頭犬) bulldog
• 斗牛场(鬥牛場) bullring
• 牛皮纸(牛皮紙) kraft paper
• 牛人 leading light; true expert; badass
• 牛轭(牛軛) yoke
• 铁牛(鐵牛) an iron ox ; someone of great strength and courage ; a tractor
• 沈牛 water buffalo
• 呼牛呼马(呼牛呼馬) to call something a cow or a horse; it doesn't matter what you call it
• 牛排 steak
• 牛油 butter
• 杀鸡焉用牛刀(殺雞焉用牛刀) don't use a sledgehammer on a nut; aquila non capit muscam
• 九牛一毛 one hair from nine oxen; a drop in the ocean
• 风马牛不相及(風馬牛不相及) to be completely unrelated to one another; irrelevant
• 扒屋牵牛(扒屋牽牛) to sack the home and lead off the cattle; to strip of everything

Also contained in

翁牛特旗 、 牛角山 、 牛僧孺 、 金牛

Word is mentioned most frequently in

Truncated for common words

• 第二十二回 Chapter 22 The Scholars 儒林外史 — count: 87
• 第二十三回 Chapter 23 The Scholars 儒林外史 — count: 86
• 《牛部》 Niú Radical Shuo Wen Jie Zi 說文解字 — count: 84
• 第六十一回 Chapter 61 Journey to the West 西遊記 — count: 65
• 第二十一回 Chapter 21 The Scholars 儒林外史 — count: 62
• 卷六十七 志第二十 五行五 Volume 67 Treatises 20: Five Elements 5 History of Song 宋史 — count: 59
• 第二十四回 Chapter 24 The Scholars 儒林外史 — count: 50
• 第六十回 Chapter 60 Journey to the West 西遊記 — count: 39
• 第一百二回 Chapter 102 Romance of the Three Kingdoms 三國演義 — count: 38
• 第十二回 Chapter 12 Water Margin 水滸傳 — count: 29

Collocations

• 卜牛 (卜牛) 改卜牛 — The Commentary of Zuo on the Spring and Autumn Annals 春秋左氏傳, 宣公 Lord Xuan — count: 13
• 郊牛 (郊牛) 郊牛之口傷 — The Commentary of Zuo on the Spring and Autumn Annals 春秋左氏傳, 宣公 Lord Xuan — count: 10
• 免牛 (免牛) 乃免牛 — The Commentary of Zuo on the Spring and Autumn Annals 春秋左氏傳, 成公 Lord Cheng — count: 10
• 竖牛 (豎牛) 豎牛欲亂其室而有之 — The Commentary of Zuo on the Spring and Autumn Annals 春秋左氏傳, 昭公 Lord Zhao — count: 9
• 牛牲 (牛牲) 奉牛牲 — Rites of Zhou 周禮, 地官司徒 第二 2. Office of Earth and Minster of Education and Social Welfare — count: 7
• 牛死 (牛死) 牛死 — The Commentary of Zuo on the Spring and Autumn Annals 春秋左氏傳, 宣公 Lord Xuan — count: 6
• 曰牛 (曰牛) 號之曰牛 — The Commentary of Zuo on the Spring and Autumn Annals 春秋左氏傳, 昭公 Lord Zhao — count: 6
• 司马牛 (司馬牛) 司馬牛致其邑與珪焉 — The Commentary of Zuo on the Spring and Autumn Annals 春秋左氏傳, 哀公 Lord Ai — count: 5
• 牛曰 (牛曰) 牛曰 — The Commentary of Zuo on the Spring and Autumn Annals 春秋左氏傳, 昭公 Lord Zhao — count: 4
• 马牛 (馬牛) 馬牛其風 — Book of Documents 尚書, 周書 費誓 Zhou Shu - Speech at Bi — count: 4