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

• 紫金牛 Japanese ardisia (Ardisia japonica)
• 九牛二虎之力 tremendous strength
• 牛人 leading light; true expert; badass
• 呼牛作马(呼牛作馬) to call something a cow or a horse; it doesn't matter what you call it
• 杀牛宰羊(殺牛宰羊) slaughter the cattle and butcher the sheep; to prepare a big feast
• 牛肉干(牛肉乾) dried beef; jerky; charqui
• 牛痘病 cow pox
• 血牛 sb who sells one's blood for a living
• 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
• 牡牛 bull
• 植物牛油 margarine
• 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
• 铁牛车(鐵牛車) a tractor
• 九牛一毛 one hair from nine oxen; a drop in the ocean
• 牛脷酥 ox tongue pastry, oval Guangdong pastry made of fried dough, resembling an ox tongue
• 牛市 bull market
• 牻牛儿苗科(牻牛兒苗科) Geraniaceae (the geranium family)
• 疯牛病(瘋牛病) mad cow disease (bovine spongiform encephalopathy)
• 牛排馆(牛排館) steakhouse
• 牛性 mulishness; obstinacy
• 三对三斗牛(三對三鬥牛) three-on-three basketball game
• 牛排餐厅(牛排餐廳) steakhouse; chophouse
• 牛油 butter
• 目无全牛(目無全牛) to see the ox already cut up into joints; extremely skilled
• 水牛 water buffalo
• 斗牛士(鬥牛士) matador; toreador; bullfighter
• 牦牛(氂牛) a yak
• 黄牛(黃牛) a cow ; scalper of tickets ; a representative ; to miss an appointment
• 牛皮纸(牛皮紙) kraft paper
• 不加牛奶 without milk; black (of tea, coffee etc)
• 煎牛扒 beef steak
• 菜牛 beef cattle (grown for meat)
• 牛痘 cowpox
• 牛角面包(牛角麵包) croissant
• 牛皮色 buff (color)
• 牛鞅 a harness for an ox
• 顶牛儿(頂牛兒) to push with the forehead; to lock horns; to be at loggerheads
• 麝牛 musk ox
• 红牛皮菜(紅牛皮菜) chard (Beta vulgaris)
• 志冲斗牛(志沖斗牛) anger rising to the heavens
• 土牛 a mound of earth on a dike ; a clay ox
• 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
• 老牛舐犊(老牛舐犢) an old ox licking its calf; (of parents) to dote on one's children
• 吹牛 to brag
• 家牛 cattle; domestic cattle
• 牛樟 Cinnamomum kanehirae; small-leaf camphor; stout camphor (indigenous to Taiwan)
• 牛柳 (beef) tenderloin

Also contained in

红牛 、 小牛儿 、 比利牛斯山 、 伏牛山

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
• 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
• 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
• 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