驴

variant of 驢|驴[lü2]

donkey / CL:頭|头[tou2]

a household / door / family

surname Ma / abbr. for Malaysia 馬來西亞|马来西亚[Ma3 lai2 xi1 ya4]

horse / CL:匹[pi3] / horse or cavalry piece in Chinese chess / knight in Western chess

ass / donkey

silly ass

onager (Equus onager)

donkey / CL:頭|头[tou2]

(coll.) male donkey

lit. to mistake good intentions for a donkey's liver and lungs (idiom) / fig. to mistake good intentions for ill intent

(coll.) electric scooter; electric moped / (dialect) scooter

(proverb) A lazy person will find many excuses to delay working / lit. When a lazy donkey is turning a grindstone, it takes a lot of time off for peeing and pooing

(derog.) Buddhist monk

(dialect) motorcycle

neither fish nor fowl / resembling nothing on earth

backpacker / travel buddy

lit. a donkey's lips do not match a horse's mouth (idiom) / fig. beside the point / incongruous

see 猴年馬月|猴年马月[hou2 nian2 ma3 yue4]

lit.camel's lip, horse's mouth (idiom) / fig. to chatter / nonsense / blather

lit. to kill the donkey when the grinding is done (idiom) / fig. to get rid of sb once he has ceased to be useful

see 別人牽驢你拔橛子|别人牵驴你拔橛子[bie2 ren5 qian1 lü2 ni3 ba2 jue2 zi5]

lit. someone else stole the donkey; you only pulled up the stake it was tethered to (idiom) / fig. you're the least culpable, but you're the one who gets the blame

lit. the scholar buys a donkey (idiom); fig. long-winded verbiage that never gets to the point / idiom mocking scholastic pomposity

lit. to kill the donkey when the grinding is done (idiom) / to get rid of sb once he has ceased to be useful