牛
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Meanings
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- 1.surname Niu
- 1.ox
- 2.cow
- 3.bull
- 4.CL:条[tiáo],头[tóu]
- 5.newton (abbr. for 牛顿[niú dùn])
- 6.(slang) awesome
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Wiktionary
- 1.bovine, e.g. cow, bull, ox, buffalo, bison, yak (Classifier: 頭／头 m c mb md; 條／条 m g h x; 隻／只 m c g mn w x)
- 2.beef
- 3.stubborn; pigheaded
- 4.arrogant
- 5.awesome; powerful
- 6.(Chinese astronomy) Ox (one of Twenty-Eight Mansions)
- 7.naughty
- 8.a surname
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Etymology
Pictogram (象形) of a bull's head, with two horns and two ears. Perhaps unrelated to 告; unrelated to 先. From Proto-Sino-Tibetan *ŋwə. ;"awesome"
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Stroke order
Components
Components from cjk-decomp · MIT
Example sentences
牛可产奶。
Cows give milk.
他們的牛都很肥。
Their cattle are all fat.
牛在牧地上吃草。
Cows are eating grass in the meadow.
牛在草地上吃牧草。
Cows are eating grass in the meadow.
蝸牛在吃我們的生菜。
The snails are eating our lettuce.
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Synonyms
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Derived terms
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