| 黄牛 | huáng niú | ox / cattle / scalper of tickets etc / (dialect) to fail to show up / (dialect) to break a promise |   |
| 家畜 | jiā chù | domestic animal / livestock / cattle | |
| 牛只 | niú zhī | cow / cattle | |
| 牛羊 | niú yáng | cattle and sheep / livestock | |
| 口齿 | kǒu chǐ | mouth and teeth / enunciation / to articulate / diction / age (of cattle, horses etc) | |
| 牛粪 | niú fèn | cattle manure | |
| 百叶 | bǎi yè | tripe (stomach lining of cattle etc used as food) | |
| 乳牛 | rǔ niú | dairy cattle | |
| 料斗 | liào dǒu | cattle feeder / hopper (wicker basket) | |
| 牛栏 | niú lán | cattle pen | |
| 菜牛 | cài niú | beef cattle (grown for meat) | |
| 栈 |  zhàn | a wooden or bamboo pen for sheep or cattle / wood or bamboo trestlework / a warehouse / (computing) stack | |
| 牿 | gù | shed or pen for cattle | |
| 带牛佩犊 | dài niú pèi dú | to abandon armed struggle and return to raising cattle (idiom) | |
| 豺狼虎豹 | chái láng hǔ bào | jackals, wolves, tigers and panthers (idiom) / animals who are dangerous to man and cattle / fierce and cruel people | |
| 蹲膘 | dūn biāo | to fatten cattle in a shed / to become fat | |
| 只许州官放火，不许百姓点灯 | zhǐ xǔ zhōu guān fàng huǒ , bù xǔ bǎi xìng diǎn dēng | only the official is allowed to light the fire / Gods may do what cattle may not / quod licet Iovi, non licet bovi | |
| 散养 | sǎn yǎng | free-range raising (of poultry, cattle etc) | |
| 杀牛宰羊 | shā niú zǎi yáng | slaughter the cattle and butcher the sheep / to prepare a big feast (idiom) | |
| 牧圉 | mù yǔ | horse breeder / pasture for cattle and horses | |
| 犎 | fēng | zebu / indicus cattle / humped ox | |
| 皮弗娄牛 | pí fú lóu niú | beefalo (cross between domestic cattle and bison) | |
| 鞅牛 | yǎng niú | cattle harnessed for plowing | |
| 牛背鹭 | niú bèi lù | (bird species of China) eastern cattle egret (Bubulcus coromandus) | |
| 牧放 | mù fàng | cattle grazing | |
| 牛群灭虫浴 | niú qún miè chóng yù | cattle dip | |
| 偷牛 | tōu niú | cattle rustling | |
| 偷窃家畜 | | cattle rustling | |
| 籅 | yú | round basket used for feeding the cattle | |
| 扒屋牵牛 | bā wū qiān niú | to sack the home and lead off the cattle (proverb) / to strip of everything | |
| 𥫣 | yú | round basket used for feeding the cattle | |
| 牻 | máng | (literary) black and white cattle | |
| 安格斯牛 | An1 gé sī niú | Angus, Scottish breed of beef cattle | |
