黄牛 (黃牛)
huáng niú
Pinyin

Definition

黄牛 (黃牛)
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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 classifier: 瓶 píng
  3. 3 classifier: 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

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.

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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