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- cowshed
- makeshift detention center set up by Red Guards in the Cultural Revolution
- (baseball) bullpen
- Cinnamomum kanehirae
- small-leaf camphor
- stout camphor (indigenous to Taiwan)
- ox hair (used as a metaphor for sth very numerous or sth fine and delicate)
- brisket (esp. Cantonese)
- belly beef
- spongy meat from cow's underside and neighboring ribs
- erroneously translated as sirloin
- (coll.) leading light
- superstar
- badass
- (coll.) higher-priced model of Lamborghini
Trad. 黃牛
- ox; cattle
- scalper of tickets etc
- (dialect) to fail to show up
- (dialect) to break a promise
- Cowherd of the folk tale Cowherd and Weaving maid 牛郎織女|牛郎织女
- Altair (star)
Trad. 牛頓
- Newton (name)
- Sir Isaac Newton (1642-1727), British mathematician and physicist
Trad. 牛頭
- Ox-Head, one of the two guardians of the underworld in Chinese mythology
- Taurus (star sign)
- Jinniu district of Chengdu city 成都市[Cheng2 du1 shi4], Sichuan
Trad. 牽牛
- Altair (star)
- Cowherd of the folk tale Cowherd and Weaving maid 牛郎織女|牛郎织女
- (slang) extreme extrovert; socially fearless person (abbr. for 社交牛逼症[she4 jiao1 niu2 bi1 zheng4])
Trad. 牛背鷺
- (bird species of China) eastern cattle egret (Bubulcus coromandus)
- ox tongue pastry, oval Guangdong pastry made of fried dough, resembling an ox tongue
Trad. 牛軛礁
- Niu'e Reef, disputed territory in the South China Sea, claimed by China, Vietnam and the Philippines, aka Whitsun Reef or Julian Felipe Reef
Trad. 金牛區
- Jinniu district of Chengdu city 成都市[Cheng2 du1 shi4], Sichuan
- Funiu mountain range in southwest Henan, an eastern extension of Qinling range 秦嶺山脈|秦岭山脉[Qin2 ling3 shan1 mai4], Shaanxi
- Ongniud banner or Ongnuud khoshuu in Chifeng 赤峰[Chi4 feng1], Inner Mongolia
Trad. 牽牛屬
- Pharbitis, genus of herbaceous plants including Morning glory 牽牛|牵牛 (Pharbitis nil)
Trad. 牽牛星
- Altair (star)
- Cowherd of the folk tale Cowherd and Weaving maid 牛郎織女|牛郎织女
Trad. 頂牛兒
- to push with the forehead
- to lock horns
- to be at loggerheads
Trad. 執牛耳
- 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)
Trad. 瘋牛病
- mad cow disease (bovine spongiform encephalopathy)
Trad. 鑽牛角
- lit. honing a bull's horn; 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
- same as idiom 鑽牛角尖|钻牛角尖
Trad. 牛年馬月
- see 猴年馬月|猴年马月[hou2 nian2 ma3 yue4]
Trad. 氣沖牛斗
- (idiom) extremely angry; infuriated
Trad. 當牛作馬
- to work like a horse and toil like an ox
- fig. to slave for sb
Trad. 牛溲馬勃
- cow's piss, horse's ulcer (idiom); worthless nonsense
- insignificant
Trad. 老牛破車
- lit. old ox pulling a shabby cart (idiom)
- fig. slow and inefficient
Trad. 老牛舐犢
- lit. an old ox licking its calf (idiom)
- fig. (of parents) to dote on one's children
Trad. 鐵板牛柳
- fillet beef served sizzling on a hot iron plate
Trad. 鐵板牛肉
- beef grilled on a hot iron plate
Trad. 返券黃牛
- "shopping coupon scalper", sb who sells unwanted or returned shopping coupons to others for a profit
Trad. 土牛木馬
- clay ox, wooden horse (idiom); shape without substance
- worthless object
- (Tw) (coll.) earthquake (According to a folk tale, earthquakes are caused by the occasional movements of an ox that lives under the earth.)
Trad. 牛衣對泣
- couple living in destitute misery (idiom)
Trad. 牛角掛書
- lit. to hang one's books on cow horns (idiom)
- fig. to be diligent in one's studies
Trad. 殺牛宰羊
- slaughter the cattle and butcher the sheep
- to prepare a big feast (idiom)
Trad. 牛郎織女
- Cowherd and Weaving maid (characters in folk story)
- separated lovers
- Altair and Vega (stars)
Trad. 牛頭伯勞
- (bird species of China) bull-headed shrike (Lanius bucephalus)
Trad. 牛驥同槽
- cow and famous steed at the same trough (idiom); fig. the common and the great are treated alike
- also written 牛驥同皂|牛骥同皂[niu2 ji4 tong2 zao4]
Trad. 牛驥同皂
- cow and famous steed at the same trough (idiom); fig. the common and the great are treated alike
- evil monsters
- (fig.) bad characters
- (political) bad elements
Trad. 吹牛拍馬
- to resort to bragging and flattering
Trad. 扒屋牽牛
- to sack the home and lead off the cattle (proverb)
- to strip of everything
Trad. 對牛彈琴
- 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
Trad. 小試牛刀
- to give a small demonstration of one's impressive skills (idiom)
- lit. a clay ox enters the sea (idiom); fig. to disappear with no hope of returning
- Ongniud banner or Ongnuud khoshuu in Chifeng 赤峰[Chi4 feng1], Inner Mongolia
- lit. one hair from nine oxen (idiom)
- fig. a drop in the ocean
Trad. 目無全牛
- to see the ox already cut up into joints (idiom); extremely skilled
- able to see through the problem at one glance
Trad. 做牛做馬
- lit. to work like an ox, to work like a horse; fig. to work extremely hard
Trad. 無殼蝸牛
- fig. people who cannot afford to buy their own house
Trad. 汗牛充棟
- lit. enough books to make a pack-ox sweat or to fill a house to the rafters (idiom); fig. many books
Trad. 呼牛作馬
- to call sth a cow or a horse (idiom); it doesn't matter what you call it
- Insult me if you want, I don't care what you call me.
Trad. 呼牛呼馬
- to call sth a cow or a horse (idiom); it doesn't matter what you call it
- Insult me if you want, I don't care what you call me.
- lit. as numerous as the hairs of an ox (idiom)
- fig. innumerable; countless