冇咁大個頭就唔好帶咁大頂帽
简 冇咁大个头就唔好带咁大顶帽 · 繁 冇咁大個頭就唔好帶咁大頂帽Meanings
- one can only spend as much as one can afford; one should not over stretch beyond their limits
- power
- abilities; to not bite off more than one can chew [colloquial]
About these definitions
Source definition segments, in their original order. Characters a definition cites are shown without their Mandarin pinyin; classifier lists that CC-Canto copied from CC-CEDICT are marked Mandarin. The community dictionary is not independently verified by zimai.
Reading & tones
Schematic citation-tone diagrams from the source numbers. These are not recordings or predictions of connected speech.
Tone and syllable differences from Unihan
- 咁 is read gam3 here; Unihan’s citation reading is gam2. Same syllable, different tone across these source readings. CC-Canto also lists 咁 gam3 as its own entry.
- 咁 is read gam3 here; Unihan’s citation reading is gam2. Same syllable, different tone across these source readings. CC-Canto also lists 咁 gam3 as its own entry.
- 頂 has the reading deng2 here; Unihan’s citation reading is ding2. Different syllable across these source readings. CC-Canto also lists 頂 deng2 as its own entry.
Computed by zimai: each syllable of the CC-Canto word reading is compared with Unihan 17.0.0 kCantonese for its character. The comparison does not say why a reading differs (a changed tone, 變音, a reading tied to one meaning, or a source variant).
Same syllable, six tones
Characters whose customary Unihan reading (kCantonese) is this syllable in each tone, chosen as in the tone atlas (2013 standard level, then the number of CC-CEDICT words they form), with CC-Canto 2017's meaning for that reading; a dash means no catalogue character has that reading. Checked syllables (-p, -t, -k) normally carry tones 1, 3 and 6. Character readings, not word readings; no frequency implied.
Written characters
Both source spellings are represented. Written membership is not an etymological or semantic claim.
Mandarin comparison · separate source entries
CC-Canto includes this pinyin reference: mao3 gan1 da4 ge5tou2 jiu4 wu2 hao3 dai4 gan1 da4 ding3 mao4. It does not establish a Mandarin word with the same meaning.
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