牛 niú
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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') -
niú
proper noun
Niu
Domain: Modern Chinese 现代汉语 , Subdomain: Names , Concept: Surname 姓氏
Notes: (Guoyu '牛' n 4) -
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') -
niú
proper noun
Taurus
Domain: Modern Chinese 现代汉语 , Subdomain: Astronomy , Concept: Constellation 星座
Notes: (Guoyu '牛' n 2) -
niú
adjective
stubborn
Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
Notes: (Guoyu '牛' adj)
Contained in
- 牛饮(牛飲) gulp
- 牛屄 awesome; capable; arrogant; cocky; bastard
- 铁板牛肉(鐵板牛肉) beef grilled on a hot iron plate
- 牛头梗(牛頭梗) bull terrier
- 汗牛充栋(汗牛充棟) enough books to make a pack-ox sweat or to fill a house to the rafters
- 扒屋牵牛(扒屋牽牛) to sack the home and lead off the cattle; to strip of everything
- 斗牛(鬥牛) bullfighting
- 气冲斗牛(氣沖斗牛) anger rising to the heavens
- 牛膝 Achyranthes bidentata
- 吹牛拍马(吹牛拍馬) to resort to bragging and flattering
- 牛轭(牛軛) yoke
- 牛肝菌 porcino (Boletus edulis)
- 多如牛毛 as numerous as the hair on an ox; countless
- 牛膝草 hyssop
- 牛粪(牛糞) manure
- 牛后(牛後) ox buttocks
- 牛排馆(牛排館) steakhouse
- 钻牛角尖(鑽牛角尖) to penetrate into a bull's horn; to waste time on an insoluble or insignificant problem; to bash one's head against a brick wall; a wild goose chase; a blind alley
- 安格斯牛 Angus, Scottish breed of beef cattle
- 煎牛扒 beef steak
- 牛骥同皂(牛驥同皂) cow and famous steed at the same trough; the common and the great are treated alike
- 呼牛作马(呼牛作馬) to call something a cow or a horse; it doesn't matter what you call it
- 丑牛 Year 2; Year of the Bull or Ox
- 水牯牛 a water buffalo
- 牛背鹭(牛背鷺) eastern cattle egret (Bubulcus coromandus)
- 牛头伯劳(牛頭伯勞) bull-headed shrike (Lanius bucephalus)
- 人造牛油 margarine
- 牛顿环(牛頓環) Newton's rings
- 铁牛(鐵牛) an iron ox ; someone of great strength and courage ; a tractor
- 杀牛宰羊(殺牛宰羊) slaughter the cattle and butcher the sheep; to prepare a big feast
- 牛排 steak
- 牛顿米(牛頓米) newton-meter
- 小牛 calf
- 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
- 牛市 bull market
- 牛柳 (beef) tenderloin
- 奶牛 milk cow; dairy cow
- 牛山濯濯 treeless hills
- 小牝牛 heifer
- 牛性 mulishness; obstinacy
- 疯牛病(瘋牛病) mad cow disease (bovine spongiform encephalopathy)
- 牵牛花(牽牛花) white-edged morning glory
- 铁板牛柳(鐵板牛柳) fillet beef teppanyaki (fast grilled on hot iron plate)
- 牛气(牛氣) haughty; overbearing; (economics) bullish
- 牛栏(牛欄) cattle pen
- 蜗行牛步(蝸行牛步) to crawl like a snail and plod along like an old ox; to move at a snail's pace
- 牛皮纸(牛皮紙) kraft paper
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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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 马牛 (馬牛) 馬牛其風 — Book of Documents 尚書, 周書 費誓 Zhou Shu - Speech at Bi — count: 5
- 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