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黃牛
简 黄牛 · 繁 黃牛Mandarin · pinyin huáng niú
Meanings
- ox; cattle
- scalper of tickets etc
- (dialect) to fail to show up
- (dialect) to break a promise
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2–2 · huang2 niu2
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noun
- ox; cattle
- ticket scalper
- (Taiwan) one who bribes and speaks on someone else's behalf to illegally gain benefits
- (Liuzhou Mandarin) quack; charlatan
- (Hong Kong Cantonese, Macau Cantonese) cream soda float
verb
- (Taiwan) to break a promise; to fail to assume responsibility; to fail to show up
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