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牛刀
niú​dāo

butcher's knife

Definitions Defs Origin Strokes Stroke Words Sentences Sents
牛刀 niú​dāo
butcher's knife
a knife used for slaughtering cattle
great talent
a person of great ability or a powerful tool (from the idiom 割鸡焉用牛刀 gē​jī​yān​yòng​niú​dāo)

Frequency

Written text
0.327 per million

Cross-References

Classifier

  • 把 bǎ

See

  • 割鸡焉用牛刀 gē​jī​yān​yòng​niú​dāo

Sources

Frequency data
BCC Corpus (BLCU)