The Chinese word for jeans is
牛仔裤
niú zǎi kùChinese Definition
jeans | |
1. 牛仔裤 | |
Components | |
牛 | |
1. bovine, e.g. cow, bull, ox, buffalo, bison, yak | |
2. beef | |
乾gān炒.牛河 - beef chow fun | |
3. stubborn; pigheaded | |
4. (colloquial) arrogant | |
5. (mainland, Mandarin, slang) awesome; powerful | |
牛屄 - vulgar awesome | |
牛人 - an awesome person | |
6. (astronomy) the Ox, a Chinese constellation near Capricorn | |
7. (physics) Short for 牛頓, tr=niúdùn, newton | |
8. (Hong Kong Cantonese, computing) Short for 火牛, transformer | |
^牛 ^僧-孺 - Niu Sengru (Tang politician) | |
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 | |
裤 | |
1. Simplified form of 褲 |
Translations for 裤 and their definitions
牛仔褲 | |
1. n. jeans; blue jeans |
牛仔裤 | |
1. Simplified form of 牛仔褲 |
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