牛奶
niú nǎi
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Cow's milk, the ordinary milk people drink. To drink milk is 喝牛奶, and a glass of milk 一杯牛奶. 奶 alone also means milk, and yoghurt is 酸奶, 'sour milk'.
Sữa bò, loại sữa thường ngày vẫn uống. Uống sữa là 喝牛奶, một cốc sữa là 一杯牛奶. 奶 đứng riêng cũng là sữa, còn sữa chua là 酸奶.
NounRegister: neutral
Examples
Editorial example (illustrative, not a corpus attestation) — awaiting a native-speaker check
Sources & notes
Hán-Việt bridge batch 064 (2026-11-14). Headword, Traditional form and pinyin checked against CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0) source ↗ · Hán-Việt reading: Unihan kVietnamese source ↗ · No Vietnamese entry is linked as its twin; the Hán-Việt reading is given character by character. Definition, literal gloss and example sentence are original; the example has not had a native-speaker check yet.
Common questions
What does “牛奶” mean?
Cow's milk, the ordinary milk people drink. To drink milk is 喝牛奶, and a glass of milk 一杯牛奶. 奶 alone also means milk, and yoghurt is 酸奶, 'sour milk'. Literally: cow milk
Is “牛奶” formal or informal?
牛奶 is generally neutral.