| 黄牛 | huáng niú | ox / cattle / scalper of tickets etc / (dialect) to fail to show up / (dialect) to break a promise |   |
| 牛 |  niú | ox / cow / bull / CL:條|条[tiao2],頭|头[tou2] / newton (abbr. for 牛頓|牛顿[niu2 dun4]) / (slang) awesome | |
| 犉 | rún | ox | |
| 牛头 | niú tóu | ox head / ox-head shaped wine vessel | |
| 多如牛毛 | duō rú niú máo | lit. as numerous as the hairs of an ox (idiom) / fig. innumerable / countless | |
| 泥牛入海 | ní niú rù hǎi | lit. a clay ox enters the sea (idiom) / fig. to disappear with no hope of returning | |
| 牛年 | niú nián | Year of the Ox or Bull (e.g. 2009) | |
| 荦 | luò | brindled ox / clear / eminent | |
| 土牛木马 | tǔ niú mù mǎ | clay ox, wooden horse (idiom) / shape without substance / worthless object | |
| 老牛舐犊 | lǎo niú shì dú | lit. an old ox licking its calf (idiom) / fig. (of parents) to dote on one's children | |
| 蜗行牛步 | wō xíng niú bù | lit. to crawl like a snail and plod along like an old ox (idiom) / fig. to move at a snail's pace / to make slow progress | |
| 麝牛 | shè niú | musk ox | |
| 楅 | bì | ox yoke placed on the horns | |
| 牼 | kēng | shank bone of ox | |
| 犛 | lí | black ox / yak | |
| 犨 | chōu | panting of cow / grunting of ox | |
| 丑牛 | chǒu niú | Year 2, year of the Bull or Ox (e.g. 2009) | |
| 做牛做马 | zuò niú zuò mǎ | lit. to work like an ox, to work like a horse / fig. to work extremely hard | |
| 土牛 | tǔ niú | clay ox / mound of earth on a dike (ready for emergency repairs) | |
| 气喘如牛 | qì chuǎn rú niú | to breathe heavily like an ox (idiom) / to huff and puff | |
| 牛舌 | niú shé | ox tongue | |
| 犎 | fēng | zebu / indicus cattle / humped ox | |
| 生肖属相 | shēng xiào shǔ xiàng | birth year as designated by animal symbols (mouse, ox, tiger etc) | |
| 目无全牛 | mù wú quán niú | to see the ox already cut up into joints (idiom) / extremely skilled / able to see through the problem at one glance | |
| 原牛 | yuán niú | aurochs (Bos primigenius), extinct wild ox | |
| 当牛作马 | dāng niú zuò mǎ | to work like a horse and toil like an ox / fig. to slave for sb | |
| 力大无穷 | lì dà wú qióng | extraordinary strength / super strong / strong as an ox | |
| 牛脷酥 | niú lì sū | ox tongue pastry, oval Guangdong pastry made of fried dough, resembling an ox tongue | |
| 老牛破车 | lǎo niú pò chē | lit. old ox pulling a shabby cart (idiom) / fig. slow and inefficient | |
| 地牛翻身 | dì niú fān shēn | (Tw) (coll.) earthquake (According to a folk tale, earthquakes are caused by the occasional movements of an ox that lives under the earth.) | |
| 牛不喝水强按头 | niú bù hē shuǐ qiǎng àn tóu | lit. to try to make an ox drink by forcing its head down to the water (idiom) / fig. to try to impose one's will on sb | |
| 牛毛 | niú máo | ox hair (used as a metaphor for sth very numerous or sth fine and delicate) | |
| 牛鞅 | niú yàng | wooden yoke for a draft ox | |
| 鞅 | yàng | wooden yoke for a draft ox | |
| 鞅牛 | yàng niú | ox harnessed for plowing | |
