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| | ox / cow / bull / CL: 條|条, 頭|头 / newton (abbr. for 牛頓|牛顿) / (slang) awesome | HSK 3 |
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| | milk cow / dairy cow | HSK 6 |
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| | to talk big / to shoot off one's mouth / to chat (dialect) | HSK 7-9 |
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| | surname Niu | |
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| | cowhide / leather / fig. flexible and tough / boasting / big talk | |
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| | denim | |
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| | Taurus (star sign) / Jinniu district of Chengdu city 成都市, Sichuan | |
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| | Gyuumao | |
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| | snail / Taiwan pr. [gua1 niu2] | |
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| | beef | |
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| | manatee | |
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| | University of Oxford | |
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| | cow horn | |
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| | Newton (name) / Sir Isaac Newton (1642-1727), British mathematician and physicist | |
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| | newton (SI unit of force) | |
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| | calf / (coll.) lower-priced model of Lamborghini | |
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| | water buffalo | |
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| | bullheadedness / stubborn | |
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| | Taurus (constellation and sign of the zodiac) | |
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| | Oxford (city in England) | |
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| | cowboy | |
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| | Ox-Head, one of the two guardians of the underworld in Chinese mythology | |
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| | ox head / ox-head shaped wine vessel | |
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| | butter / beef tallow | |
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| | rhinoceros | |
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| | ox; cattle / scalper of tickets etc / (dialect) to fail to show up / (dialect) to break a promise | |
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| | cowshed / makeshift detention center set up by Red Guards in the Cultural Revolution / (baseball) bullpen | |
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| | kraft paper | |
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| | steak | |
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| | brisket (esp. Cantonese) / belly beef / spongy meat from cow's underside and neighboring ribs / erroneously translated as sirloin | |
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| | calf | |
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| | Cowherd of the folk tale Cowherd and Weaving maid 牛郎織女|牛郎织女 / Altair (star) | |
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| | cowherd boy / (slang) male prostitute | |
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| | (loanword) nougat | |
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| | matador / toreador / bullfighter | |
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| | bull market | |
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| | dairy cattle | |
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| | takin (type of goat-antelope) | |
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| | (coll.) haughty / overbearing / (economics) bullish | |
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| | lit. to penetrate into a bull's horn (idiom); fig. 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 / to split hairs | |
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| | white-edged morning glory | |
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| | lit. newborn calves do not fear tigers (idiom) / fig. the young are fearless | |
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| | toffee; chewy caramel candy | |
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| | cattle pen | |
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| | tremendous strength (idiom) | |
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| | lit. to work like an ox, to work like a horse; fig. to work extremely hard | |
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| | fig. people who cannot afford to buy their own house | |
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| | Cowherd and Weaving maid (characters in folk story) / separated lovers / Altair and Vega (stars) | |
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| | to boast / to talk big | |
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| | bezoar | |
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| | mulishness / obstinacy | |
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| | sb who sells one's blood for a living | |
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| | lit. to play the lute to a cow (idiom) / fig. offering a treat to an unappreciative audience / to cast pearls before swine / caviar to the general / to preach to deaf ears / to talk over sb's head | |
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| | to give a small demonstration of one's impressive skills (idiom) | |
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| | to be the acknowledged leader (from the custom of a prince holding a plate on which lay the severed ears of a sacrificial bull at an alliance ceremony) | |
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| | class of underachievers / dunces' class (Tw) | |
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| | mad cow disease (bovine spongiform encephalopathy) | |
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| | Jinniu district of Chengdu city 成都市, Sichuan | |
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| | yoke | |
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| | Pyrenees mountains | |
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| | Japanese ardisia (Ardisia japonica) | |
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| | to be completely unrelated to one another (idiom) / irrelevant | |
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| | psoriasis | |
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| | (dialect) penis | |
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| | oxen and horses; beasts of burden / (fig.) drudge; laborer | |
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| | Altair (star) / Cowherd of the folk tale Cowherd and Weaving maid 牛郎織女|牛郎织女 | |
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| | morning glory (Pharbitis nil) | |
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| | Altair (star) / Cowherd of the folk tale Cowherd and Weaving maid 牛郎織女|牛郎织女 | |
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| | cow's milk | |
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| | Ongniud banner or Ongnuud khoshuu in Chifeng 赤峰, Inner Mongolia | |
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| | lit. enough books to make a pack-ox sweat or to fill a house to the rafters (idiom); fig. many books | |
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| | taurine | |
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| | (coll.) leading light / true expert / badass | |
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| | porcino (Boletus edulis) | |
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| | burdock (Arctium lappa) | |
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| | bullfrog | |
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| | to see the ox already cut up into joints (idiom); extremely skilled / able to see through the problem at one glance | |
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| | lit. to hang one's books on cow horns (idiom) / fig. to be diligent in one's studies | |
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| | evil monsters / (fig.) bad characters / (political) bad elements | |
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| | lit. one hair from nine oxen (idiom) / fig. a drop in the ocean | |
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| | clay ox / mound of earth on a dike (ready for emergency repairs) | |
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| | (coll.) bullheaded / obstinate | |
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| | to breathe heavily like an ox (idiom) / to huff and puff | |
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| | to resort to bragging and flattering | |
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| | couple living in destitute misery (idiom) | |
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| | don't use a sledgehammer on a nut / aquila non capit muscam | |
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| | wagyu | |
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| | ox hair (used as a metaphor for sth very numerous or sth fine and delicate) | |
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| | lit. why use a pole-ax to slaughter a chicken? (idiom) / fig. to waste effort on a trifling matter / also written 殺雞焉用牛刀|杀鸡焉用牛刀 | |
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| | (bird species of China) eastern cattle egret (Bubulcus coromandus) | |
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| | lit. to try to make an ox drink by forcing its head down to the water (idiom) / fig. to try to impose one's will on sb | |
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| | (idiom) extremely angry; infuriated | |
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| | ox tongue | |
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| | Pyrenees mountains | |
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| | cow's piss, horse's ulcer (idiom); worthless nonsense / insignificant | |
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