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CHINESE DICTIONARY ENTRY

奶牛

nǎiniú

milk cow

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DEFINITIONS & USAGE

Meaning and common use

01

milk cow

02

dairy cow

REAL CORPUS EXAMPLES

How 奶牛 actually appears in real sentences.

These sentences are copied from the Tatoeba corpus, so they are real usage rather than generated text. 奶牛 appears in 4 of the 89,190 sentences we searched. Sentences without a published English translation are shown in Chinese only.

奶牛为我们提供牛奶。nǎi niú wèi wǒ men tí gōng niú nǎi。

Cows provide us with milk.

《WHAT THE CAR?》中的雷射奶牛又好笑又吓人!《WHAT THE CAR?》 zhōng de léi shè nǎi niú yòu hǎo xiào yòu xià rén!

The laser cow in WHAT THE CAR? is both hilarious and terrifying!

奶牛是种有用的动物。nǎi niú shì zhǒng yǒu yòng de dòng wù。

No published English translation for this sentence.

COMMON COLLOCATIONS

Words that keep company with 奶牛.

Counted from the same corpus: the word that most often comes directly before, and directly after, 奶牛.

Directly before

  • 到奶牛1
  • 雷射奶牛1

Directly after

  • 奶牛为1
  • 奶牛是1
  • 奶牛没1
  • 奶牛又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 奶牛

What does 奶牛 mean in Chinese?

奶牛 (nǎiniú) means milk cow.

How do you pronounce 奶牛?

奶牛 is pronounced nǎiniú.

Is 奶牛 an HSK word?

奶牛 is on the list of the HSK 3.1 vocabulary syllabus.

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