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Definition
- cow
- meaning component (cow, ox, cattle...)
- bull
- ox
- radical (Kang Xi 93)
- (slang) awesome
Compounds (43)
thing; object; matter; content; substance; essence; other people; (the) outside (or material) world as distinct from oneself; abbr. for physics 物理
to separate; to undo; allay; to dispel; to dismiss; to divide; to break up; to split; to dissolve; to solve; to melt; to untie; to remove; to loosen; to open; to emancipate; to explain; to understand; to know; (a) solution; dissection
Related words (133)
brisket (esp. Cantonese); belly beef; spongy meat from cow's underside and neighboring ribs; erroneously translated as sirloin
(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
"shopping coupon scalper", sb who sells unwanted or returned shopping coupons to others for a profit
Proverbs (1)
Idioms (26)
(lit.) to hang one's books on cow horns (idiom); (fig.) to be diligent in one's studies
cow and famous steed at the same trough (idiom); fig. the common and the great are treated alike; also written 牛驥同皂
cow and famous steed at the same trough (idiom); fig. the common and the great are treated alike
(lit.) one hair from nine oxen (idiom); a hair off a bull's back; too little to make a difference; a drop in the bucket; a hair from nine cows (the least particle); (fig.) a drop in the ocean
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.
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.) to play the lute to a cow (idiom); (fig.) offering a treat to an unappreciative audience; to have the wrong audience; to waste good acts (on somebody); to cast pearls before a swine; caviar to the general; to preach to deaf ears; to talk over (somebody's head)
(lit.) enough books to make a pack-ox sweat or to fill a house to the rafters (idiom); fig. many books
(lit.) a clay ox enters the sea (idiom); fig. to disappear with no hope of returning
to see the ox already cut up into joints (idiom); extremely skilled; able to see through the problem at one glance
(lit.) an old ox licking its calf (idiom); (fig.) (of parents) to dote on one's children
(lit.) to crawl like a snail and plod along like an old ox (idiom); (fig.) to move at a snail's pace; to make slow progress
(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
(lit.) an old cow eats young grass (idiom); (fig.) a May-December relationship; a romance where the man is significantly older than the woman
(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
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