The Chinese word for calf is
小牛
xiǎoniú
Translations for calf and their definitions
| 小牛 | |
| 1. n. calf (young cow or bull) |
| 犢 | |
| 1. calf (young cow or bull) |
| 犊 | |
| 1. Simplified form of 犢 |
| 腿肚子 | |
| 1. n. (informal) calf of the leg |
| 腓 | |
| 1. calf; the back of the leg below the knee | |
| 2. (obsolete, of plants) to die from diseases | |
| 3. (obsolete) to protect |
| 仔 | |
| 1. (Min Nan) An interfix placed between two nouns to show the relationship between the two objects. | |
| 翁仔某 (ang-á-bó͘) - husband and wife, MN | |
| 2. (Min Nan) An interfix placed between two numbers to denote the value of 100, i.e. x (lang-lite, zh, sc=Hani, 仔) y = 100x + 10y. | |
| 三-仔-五 (saⁿ-á-gō͘) - three hundred fifty, MN | |
| 3. (Min Nan) An interfix used limitedly in certain temporal location adverbs. | |
| 今kin仔日 (kin-á-ji̍t) - today, MN | |
| 明bîn仔載 (bîn-á-chài) - tomorrow, MN | |
| 4. a suffix used after nouns | |
| 樹仔 (su-é) - tree, H | |
| 5. a suffix that makes a derogatory slur | |
| 阿山仔 (â-sân-é) - Mainlander, H | |
| 6. Only used in 仔肩 | |
| 7. Used to show a verb has been completed before the last verb of a sentence, often in a sequence of events. | |
| 8. Used to indicate the present perfective. | |
| 我 到 仔 有 兩 三 日 哉。 - tr=, I've been here for several days already., SH, ref=2010, Qian Nairong, (lang-lite, zh, sc=Hani, 《從〈滬語便商〉所見的老上海話時態》 (Tenses and Aspects? Old Shanghainese as Found in the Bo | |
| 覅 讓 俚 逃走 脫仔！ - Don't let him get away!, ref=(lang-lite, zh, sc=Hani, 江苏省志・方言志, page 538, W-SZ) | |
| 9. =====Usage notes===== | |
| 10. In some lects, such as Shanghainese, (l-lite, zh, sc=Hani, 了) is a lot more common nowadays. To distinguish between it, l-lite, zh, sc=Hani, 脫了, and l-lite, zh, sc=Hani, 脫, see 脫了Usage notes |
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