ngau4 tau4牛頭牛头
Jyutpingngau4 tau4
Yalengàuh tàuh
Definition
The head of an ox or cow.
colloquialfoodanimals
How it's used
Refers specifically to the physical head of an ox, often encountered in traditional wet markets or specific culinary contexts like soup making. It is rarely used metaphorically in Cantonese, unlike some other animal-related idioms. When discussing the animal itself, people usually just refer to the whole animal as 牛.
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This ox head is huge, how are you going to cook it?
They bought an ox head to make soup.
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Grammar guides
- QuestionsFrom yes or no questions to asking who, what, where, and when. The patterns you need to ask questions naturally in Cantonese.
- ClassifiersCantonese puts a classifier between a number and a noun, and a bare classifier on its own can mean the. Learn the common ones and how to use them.
- ComparisonsHow to say bigger than, the most, the same as, and not as good as. Cantonese uses 過 where Mandarin uses 比, and that catches a lot of learners out.
