黄牛
huáng niú
Pinyin

Definition

黄牛
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huáng niú
  1. ox
  2. cattle
  3. scalper of tickets etc
  4. to fail to show up
  5. to break a promise

Character Decomposition

Related Words (20)

牛
Niú
  1. 1 surname Niu
牛奶
niú nǎi
  1. 1 cow's milk
  2. 2 CL:瓶[píng],杯[bēi]
金牛
Jīn niú
  1. 1 Taurus (star sign)
  2. 2 Jinniu district of Chengdu city 成都市[Chéng dū shì], Sichuan
金牛座
Jīn niú zuò
  1. 1 Taurus (constellation and sign of the zodiac)
伏牛山
Fú niú shān
  1. 1 Funiu mountain range in southwest Henan, an eastern extension of Qinling range 秦嶺山脈|秦岭山脉[Qín lǐng shān mài], Shaanxi
公牛
gōng niú
  1. 1 bull
吹牛
chuī niú
  1. 1 to talk big
  2. 2 to shoot off one's mouth
  3. 3 to chat (dialect)
奶牛
nǎi niú
  1. 1 milk cow
  2. 2 dairy cow
斗牛
Dǒu Niú
  1. 1 Big Dipper and Altair (astronomy)
牛仔
niú zǎi
  1. 1 cowboy
牛仔裤
niú zǎi kù
  1. 1 jeans
  2. 2 CL:條|条[tiáo]
牛刀小试
niú dāo xiǎo shì
  1. 1 see 小試牛刀|小试牛刀[xiǎo shì niú dāo]
牛排
niú pái
  1. 1 steak
牛气
niú qi
  1. 1 (coll.) haughty
  2. 2 overbearing
  3. 3 (economics) bullish
牛津
Niú jīn
  1. 1 Oxford (city in England)
牛犊
niú dú
  1. 1 calf
牛皮
niú pí
  1. 1 cowhide
  2. 2 leather
  3. 3 fig. flexible and tough
  4. 4 boasting
  5. 5 big talk
牛肉
niú ròu
  1. 1 beef
牛肉干
niú ròu gān
  1. 1 dried beef
  2. 2 jerky
  3. 3 charqui
牛肉面
niú ròu miàn
  1. 1 beef noodle soup

Idioms (20)

九牛一毛
jiǔ niú yī máo
  1. 1 lit. one hair from nine oxen (idiom)
  2. 2 fig. a drop in the ocean
九牛二虎之力
jiǔ niú èr hǔ zhī lì
  1. 1 tremendous strength (idiom)
初生牛犊不怕虎
chū shēng niú dú bù pà hǔ
  1. 1 lit. newborn calves do not fear tigers (idiom)
  2. 2 fig. the young are fearless
割鸡焉用牛刀
gē jī yān yòng niú dāo
  1. 1 lit. why use a pole-ax to slaughter a chicken? (idiom)
  2. 2 fig. to waste effort on a trifling matter
  3. 3 also written 殺雞焉用牛刀|杀鸡焉用牛刀[shā jī yān yòng niú dāo]
呼牛作马
hū niú zuò mǎ
  1. 1 to call sth a cow or a horse (idiom); it doesn't matter what you call it
  2. 2 Insult me if you want, I don't care what you call me.
呼牛呼马
hū niú hū mǎ
  1. 1 to call sth a cow or a horse (idiom); it doesn't matter what you call it
  2. 2 Insult me if you want, I don't care what you call me.
土牛木马
tǔ niú mù mǎ
  1. 1 clay ox, wooden horse (idiom); shape without substance
  2. 2 worthless object
多如牛毛
duō rú niú máo
  1. 1 as many as the hair of the ox (idiom)
  2. 2 great amount of
  3. 3 countless
对牛弹琴
duì niú tán qín
  1. 1 lit. to play the lute to a cow (idiom)
  2. 2 fig. offering a treat to an unappreciative audience
  3. 3 to cast pearls before swine
  4. 4 caviar to the general
  5. 5 to preach to deaf ears
  6. 6 to talk over sb's head
小试牛刀
xiǎo shì niú dāo
  1. 1 to give a small demonstration of one's impressive skills (idiom)
带牛佩犊
dài niú pèi dú
  1. 1 to abandon armed struggle and return to raising cattle (idiom)
杀牛宰羊
shā niú zǎi yáng
  1. 1 slaughter the cattle and butcher the sheep
  2. 2 to prepare a big feast (idiom)
气喘如牛
qì chuǎn rú niú
  1. 1 to breathe heavily like an ox (idiom)
  2. 2 to huff and puff
汗牛充栋
hàn niú chōng dòng
  1. 1 lit. enough books to make a pack-ox sweat or to fill a house to the rafters (idiom); fig. many books
泥牛入海
ní niú rù hǎi
  1. 1 lit. a clay ox enters the sea (idiom); fig. to disappear with no hope of returning
牛山濯濯
niú shān zhuó zhuó
  1. 1 treeless hills (idiom)
牛溲马勃
niú sōu mǎ bó
  1. 1 cow's piss, horse's ulcer (idiom); worthless nonsense
  2. 2 insignificant
牛衣对泣
niú yī duì qì
  1. 1 couple living in destitute misery (idiom)
牛角挂书
niú jiǎo guà shū
  1. 1 lit. to hang one's books on cow horns (idiom)
  2. 2 fig. to be diligent in one's studies
牛骥同槽
niú jì tóng cáo
  1. 1 cow and famous steed at the same trough (idiom); fig. the common and the great are treated alike
  2. 2 also written 牛驥同皂|牛骥同皂[niú jì tóng zào]

Sample Sentences

这么扣分的话，说不定会有一批卖分、替考的黄牛。其实严格一些是好事。以前我们都不系安全带的，现在我上车第一件事就是把安全带系上。
zhème kòufēn dehuà ，shuōbudìng huì yǒu yī pī màifēn 、tìkǎo de huángniú 。qíshí yángé yīxiē shì hǎoshì 。yǐqián wǒmen dōu bù jì ānquándài de ，xiànzài wǒ shàngchē dìyī jiàn shì jiùshì bǎ ānquándài jìshang 。
If all those get you points, a new black market for removing points and retaking the test might crop up. But actually getting stricter is a good thing. Before we never wore our seat belts, but now buckling up is the first thing I do when I get in the car.
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找黄牛换。你不知道啊？
zhǎo huángniú huàn 。nǐ bù zhīdào a ？
I find a private money changer. Don't you know about them?
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找黄牛怎么换？
zhǎo huángniú zěnme huàn ？
How does a private money changer work?
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我被黄牛骗了两百块。
wǒ bèi huángniú piàn le liǎngbǎi kuài 。
I was cheated by a ticket scalper out of 200 hundred kuai.
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我被黄牛骗了。
wǒ bèi huángniú piàn le 。
I was cheated by a ticket scalper.
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黄牛很坏。
huángniú hěn huài 。
Ticket scalpers are bad.
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黄牛
huángniú
Ticket scalper.
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啊？又被黄牛骗了。
ǎ ？yòu bèi huángniú piàn le 。
Huh? The scalpers swindled me again.
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这...... 好！呵呵，你真是比黄牛还会砍价啊。
zhè ...... hǎo ！hēhē ，nǐ zhēnshì bǐ huángniú hái huì kǎnjià a 。
Uhhh... OK! Heh heh, you're even better than the scalpers at cutting a deal.
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喏，两张07赛季一级方程式中国站正式赛的尾票，和黄牛磨了半天呢。
nuò ，liǎng zhāng líng qī sàijì yījí fāngchéngshì Zhōngguó zhàn zhèngshì sài de wěipiào ，hé huángniú mó le bàntiān ne 。
Look, two tickets to the Formula One 2007 season race. I had to haggle with that scalper forever.
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