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牛仔裤niú zǎi kù
jeans
Definitions
| Chinese > English | ||
| 牛仔裤 | ||
| 1. Simplified form of 牛仔褲 | ||
| 牛仔褲 | niúzǎikù, niúzǐkù | |
| 1. n. jeans; blue jeans | ||
| English > Chinese | ||
| jeans | ||
| 1. 牛仔裤 | ||
| Components | ||
| 牛 | niú | |
| 1. bovine, e.g. cow, bull, ox, buffalo, bison, yak | ||
| 2. beef | ||
| 乾gān炒.牛河 - beef chow fun | ||
| 3. stubborn; pigheaded | ||
| 4. (colloquial) arrogant | ||
| 5. (mainland, Mandarin, slang) awesome; powerful | ||
| 牛屄 - vulgar awesome | ||
| 牛人 - an awesome person | ||
| 6. (astronomy) the Ox, a Chinese constellation near Capricorn | ||
| 7. (physics) Short for 牛頓, tr=niúdùn, newton | ||
| 8. (Hong Kong Cantonese, computing) Short for 火牛, transformer | ||
| 牛 僧-孺 - Niu Sengru (Tang politician) | ||
| 仔 | 仔 | |
| 1. (Min Nan) An interfix placed between two nouns to show the relationship between the two objects. | ||
| 翁仔某 (ang-á-bó͘) - husband and wife, MN | ||
| 2. (Min Nan) An interfix placed between two numbers to denote the value of 100, i.e. x (lang-lite, zh, sc=Hani, 仔) y = 100x + 10y. | ||
| 三-仔-五 (saⁿ-á-gō͘) - three hundred fifty, MN | ||
| 3. (Min Nan) An interfix used limitedly in certain temporal location adverbs. | ||
| 今kin仔日 (kin-á-ji̍t) - today, MN | ||
| 明bîn仔載 (bîn-á-chài) - tomorrow, MN | ||
| 4. a suffix used after nouns | ||
| 樹仔 (su-é) - tree, H | ||
| 5. a suffix that makes a derogatory slur | ||
| 阿山仔 (â-sân-é) - Mainlander, H | ||
| 6. Only used in 仔肩 | ||
| 7. Used to show a verb has been completed before the last verb of a sentence, often in a sequence of events. | ||
| 8. Used to indicate the present perfective. | ||
| 我 到 仔 有 兩 三 日 哉。 - tr=, I've been here for several days already., SH, ref=2010, Qian Nairong, (lang-lite, zh, sc=Hani, 《從〈滬語便商〉所見的老上海話時態》 (Tenses and Aspects? Old Shanghainese as Found in the Bo | ||
| 覅 讓 俚 逃走 脫仔！ - Don't let him get away!, ref=(lang-lite, zh, sc=Hani, 江苏省志・方言志, page 538, W-SZ) | ||
| 9. =====Usage notes===== | ||
| 10. In some lects, such as Shanghainese, (l-lite, zh, sc=Hani, 了) is a lot more common nowadays. To distinguish between it, l-lite, zh, sc=Hani, 脫了, and l-lite, zh, sc=Hani, 脫, see 脫了Usage notes | ||
| 裤 | ||
| 1. Simplified form of 褲 | ||
| 褲 | kù | |
| 1. pants; trousers | ||
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Pronunciation
niú zǎi kù
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