Component |
Pinyin |
Meanings |
牛 |
niú |
1. bovine, e.g. cow, bull, ox, buffalo, bison, yak |
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2. beef |
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乾gān炒.牛河 - beef chow fun |
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3. stubborn; pigheaded |
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4. (colloquial) arrogant |
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5. (mainland, Mandarin, slang) awesome; powerful |
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牛屄 - vulgar awesome |
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牛人 - an awesome person |
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6. (astronomy) the Ox, a Chinese constellation near Capricorn |
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7. (physics) Short for 牛頓 (tr=niúdùn, newton) |
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8. (Hong Kong Cantonese, computing) Short for 火牛 (transformer) |
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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 |
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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. |
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三-仔-五 (saⁿ-á-gō͘) - three hundred fifty, MN |
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3. (Min Nan) An interfix used limitedly in certain temporal location adverbs. |
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今kin仔日 (kin-á-ji̍t) - today, MN |
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明bîn仔載 (bîn-á-chài) - tomorrow, MN |
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4. a suffix used after nouns |
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樹仔 (su-é) - tree, H |
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5. a suffix that makes a derogatory slur |
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阿山仔 (â-sân-é) - Mainlander, H |
zī |
6. (zh-only used in, 仔肩) |
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7. Used to show a verb has been completed before the last verb of a sentence, often in a sequence of events. |
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8. Used to indicate the present perfective. |
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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 |
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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) |
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9. =====Usage notes===== |
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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 |
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1. Simplified form of 褲 |