donkey; ass

silly ass

(coll.) male donkey

(derog.) (slang) married woman (term used by some feminists to imply that by marrying, women make themselves subservient to the patriarchal order)

jenny; female donkey

donkey; CL:頭|头[tou2]

(slang) electric bicycle or scooter (moped-style)

(derog.) Buddhist monk

onager (Equus onager)

backpacker; travel buddy

hinny

jackass

(coll.) electric scooter; electric moped; (dialect) scooter

(dialect) motorcycle

(lit.) a donkey's liver and lungs; (fig.) ill intent

donkey foal

(idiom) to act like the scholar who wrote at length about buying a donkey without even mentioning the word "donkey"; to write at length without ever getting to the point

lit. to kill the donkey when the grinding is done (idiom); fig. to get rid of sb once he has ceased to be useful

neither fish nor fowl; resembling nothing on earth

(lit.) a donkey's lips do not match a horse's mouth (idiom); (fig.) wide of the mark; irrelevant; incongruous

see 猴年馬月|猴年马月[hou2 nian2 ma3 yue4]

(idiom) (coll.) to continue in an unsatisfactory job (or romantic relationship etc) while actively looking for a better one

lit. to search for the mule while riding on it (idiom); fig. to look for what one already has

see 騎驢找驢|骑驴找驴[qi2 lu:2 zhao3 lu:2]

to exhaust one's limited abilities (idiom)

(lit.) a donkey's lips do not match a horse's mouth (saying); (fig.) wide of the mark; irrelevant; incongruous

see 別人牽驢你拔橛子|别人牵驴你拔橛子[bie2 ren5 qian1 lu:2 ni3 ba2 jue2 zi5]

(saying) to mistake good intentions for ill will

(proverb) A lazy person will find many excuses to delay working; lit. When a lazy donkey is turning a grindstone, it takes a lot of time off for peeing and pooing

lit. someone else stole the donkey; you only pulled up the stake it was tethered to (idiom); fig. you're the least culpable, but you're the one who gets the blame