1 surname Niu

1 cow's milk

2 classifier: 瓶 píng

3 classifier: 杯 bēi

1 beef

1 variant: 牛屄 niú bī

1 to fall ill

1 to fall gravely ill, never to recover (idiom)

1 long illness makes the patient into a good doctor (idiom)

1 lit. one hair from nine oxen (idiom)

2 fig. a drop in the ocean

1 tremendous strength (idiom)

1 to hit the target where it hurts (idiom); fig. to hit home

2 to hit the nail on the head (in an argument)