ox / cow / bull / CL:條|条[tiao2],頭|头[tou2] / newton (abbr. for 牛頓|牛顿[niu2 dun4]) / (slang) awesome

= 𠂉 + : A bull has been locked to a big cross in the outhouse's kitchen, and Nefertiti has the key. She promises to free the bull if he pledges allegiance to her leadership.

牛 character breakdown

ten / 10

= + : Mnemonic symbol: a holy cross. Sherlock Holmes (sh-) is investigating a very strange thing he found in the kitchen of the space station (-2): A big pyramid made of ten (十) crosses (十), which are in turn made out of flutes (一) and dinosaur bones (丨).
Character component without intrinsic meaning

𠂉 = 丿 + : Mnemonic symbol: 𠂉 looks like a key.

Imagine a banana you can't open without putting a key into each of the holes of a flute which is painted on its peel.

Characters with 牛 as component

to be born / to give birth / life / to grow / raw / uncooked / student

= + : Mnemonic symbol: a cradle.

Sherlock Holmes (sh) comforts a crying baby bull (牛) in a cradle (生) in front of the engine ((e)ng1) and plays him a tune on a flute (一).
special / unique / distinguished / especially / unusual / very / abbr. for 特克斯[te4 ke4 si1], tex

= + : Tecumseh (t) has a very special (特) mount: In contrast to the other Indians he rides a bull (牛). Moreover, the bull is so special (特) that it meditates in front of the Buddhist shrine (寺) in the elevator's bathroom (e4) together with Tecumseh.
thing / object / matter / abbr. for physics 物理

= + : Willy Walrus (w) wants to become a physicist (物) and does research about dark matter (物) in the space station's bathroom (Ø4). His motivation is to become a super villain and rule the world. Just as he is about to have a breakthrough, a huge black ox (牛) flying with the help of bat wings (勿) hits Willy with an oxerang and takes away the dark matter, saving the world.
domestic animal / sacrificial animal

= + : The bull (牛) got a child and is watching over it in its cradle (生) in front of the engine ((e)ng1). He has to be very attentive because Sherlock Holmes (sh) wants to use the newborn as a sacrificial animal (牲).
to say / to tell / to announce / to report / to denounce / to file a lawsuit / to sue

= + : Mnemonic symbol: one of these LED panels with public announcements which scroll horizontally over the panel.

= + : Guy Fawkes is informing the golden calf that it is not allowed to eat mandarins any more in the aorta's bathroom by pointing at a big LED screen stating so.
item / component / classifier for events, things, clothes etc

= + : Joan of Arc and Rosa Luxemburg want to use the anthill's bathroom, but there is a bull blocking the way. He posed them a riddle, and as long as they can't deliver the item or component he asked for to fulfill this quest, he won't let them pass.
to lead along / to pull (an animal on a tether) / (bound form) to involve / to draw in

= + + : The Queen of Hearts (qi) likes surfing, but there is no water in front of the anthill (an1). She doesn't care though, she just has the robot (大) and the bull (牛) pull her on a tether (牵) while she is surfing on a cooking top (冖).
firm / sturdy / fold (for animals) / sacrifice / prison

= + : Sir Lancelot (l) keeps a bull (牛)in the aorta's kitchen (ao2) by imprisoning (牢) it in a very sturdy (牢) graduation cap (宀).
sacrifice

= + 西 : Marie Curie (xi) is selling an ox (牛) for cheap in front of the space station (Ø1) as a loss leader (牺). To pepper the ox a little up she puts a cowboy hat (西) on his head.
system / to control / to regulate / variant of 製|制[zhi4]
to manufacture / to make

= + + : James II of England (zh) and the bull (牛) have to work in a sweatshop in the space station's bathroom (Ø4) where they manufacture (制) one printed circuit board (制) after the other. Their only tools are kitchen knives (刂) with which they carve the boards. They sweat a lot, so each of them has a towel (巾) wrapped around their neck.
surname Mu

Words with 牛

Big Dipper and Altair (astronomy)
to give a small demonstration of one's impressive skills (idiom)
to abandon armed struggle and return to raising cattle (idiom)
to sack the home and lead off the cattle (proverb) / to strip of everything
lit. to play the lute to a cow (idiom) / fig. offering a treat to an unappreciative audience / to cast pearls before swine / caviar to the general / to preach to deaf ears / to talk over sb's head
class of underachievers / dunces' class (Tw)
slaughter the cattle and butcher the sheep / to prepare a big feast (idiom)
don't use a sledgehammer on a nut / aquila non capit muscam

Sentences with 牛

shén
me
mǎ
tia̅n
ju̅n
 
 
niú
tia̅n
ju̅n
 
 
bié
qù
lǐ
ta̅