The calf should be separated from its mother.
CHINESE DICTIONARY ENTRY
小牛
calf
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DEFINITIONS & USAGE
Meaning and common use
01
calf
02
(coll.) lower-priced model of Lamborghini
REAL CORPUS EXAMPLES
How 小牛 actually appears in real sentences.
These sentences are copied from the Tatoeba corpus, so they are real usage rather than generated text. 小牛 appears in 3 of the 89,190 sentences we searched. Sentences without a published English translation are shown in Chinese only.
The newborn calf couldn't catch up with the herd running from the jaguar.
No published English translation for this sentence.
COMMON COLLOCATIONS
Words that keep company with 小牛.
Counted from the same corpus: the word that most often comes directly before, and directly after, 小牛.
Directly before
- 将小牛1
- 新生小牛1
Directly after
- 小牛不见1
- 小牛从1
- 小牛跟不上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 小牛
What does 小牛 mean in Chinese?
小牛 (xiǎoniú) means calf.
How do you pronounce 小牛?
小牛 is pronounced xiǎoniú.
Is 小牛 an HSK word?
小牛 is on the list of the HSK 3.1 vocabulary syllabus.
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