What is permitted to Jove is not permitted to an ox.
CHINESE DICTIONARY ENTRY
公牛
bull
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DEFINITIONS & USAGE
Meaning and common use
01
bull
REAL CORPUS EXAMPLES
How 公牛 actually appears in real sentences.
These sentences are copied from the Tatoeba corpus, so they are real usage rather than generated text. 公牛 appears in 3 of the 89,190 sentences we searched. Sentences without a published English translation are shown in Chinese only.
When the cow flies high and the ox flies low, there probably is a twister.
No published English translation for this sentence.
COMMON COLLOCATIONS
Words that keep company with 公牛.
Counted from the same corpus: the word that most often comes directly before, and directly after, 公牛.
Directly before
- 紧握公牛1
Directly after
- 公牛飞得1
- 公牛的1
- 公牛做1
ABOUT THIS ENTRY
Where this entry comes from
The HSK level, part of speech, and pronunciation come from the HSK 3.1 vocabulary syllabus. The English definitions come from CC-CEDICT. Corpus sentences, collocations, and the frequency figure come from the Tatoeba Chinese sentence export and are counted rather than written, so nothing on this page is invented. Usage notes and the hand-written examples that appear higher up exist only for a handful of entries.
Definitions from CC-CEDICT, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0. Vocabulary levels and parts of speech from the HSK 3.1 syllabus. This compiled dictionary is shared under the same CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
COMMON QUESTIONS
About 公牛
What does 公牛 mean in Chinese?
公牛 (gōngniú) means bull.
How do you pronounce 公牛?
公牛 is pronounced gōngniú.
Is 公牛 an HSK word?
公牛 is on the list of the HSK 3.1 vocabulary syllabus.
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