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大頭
简 大头 · 繁 大頭Mandarin · pinyin dà tóu
Meanings
- big head
- mask in the shape of a big head
- the larger end of sth
- the main part
- the lion's share
- dupe
- sucker
- (old) silver coin with a bust of Yuan Shikai 袁世凱 Yuán Shì kǎi on the obverse side
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4–2 · da4 tou2
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Rime Cantonese 粵拼
daai6 tau2
Cantonese word readings for 大頭. This lexicon supplies readings, not definitions.
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noun
- big head
- head mask
- person who was ripped off; person deceived on account of his or her generosity; squanderer; spendthrift
- (Taiwan) Butters Stotch (a character from South Park) in the Mandarin dub of the show.
noun
- silver dollar with the head of Yuan Shikai (as used in the early years of the Republic of China)
- (Cantonese) bighead carp (Hypophthalmichthys nobilis)
- (Cantonese) zoomed in photograph of one's face
noun
- main part; bigger portion
- important figure; big shot
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