牛角

niújiǎo
noun #21,896

Measure Word

Meanings

  1. 1 ox horn
  2. 2 cow horn

Examples

HSK 6
Nà tóu gōngniú de niújiǎo yòu cháng yòu jiān.
That bull's horns are long and sharp.
HSK 6
Tā xǐhuān zuānniújiǎojiān, shénme shì dōu yào wèn gè míngbai.
He likes to go down rabbit holes - he has to get to the bottom of everything.

Tips

usage
牛角 is literally 'ox horn', but it is best known through the idiom 钻牛角尖 - 'to squeeze into the tip of an ox horn', meaning to get bogged down in trivial details or to pursue an impossible line of thinking stubbornly.

Stroke Order

niú
jiǎo