好佬怕爛佬爛佬怕潑婦
简 好佬怕烂佬烂佬怕泼妇 · 繁 好佬怕爛佬爛佬怕潑婦Meanings
- Good guys are afraid of bad guys, bad guys are afraid of bad tempered women, it means someone of good quality do not argue or fight with those who are unreasonable [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.
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: hao3 lao3 pa4 lan4 lao3 lan4 lao3 pa4 po1fu4. It does not establish a Mandarin word with the same meaning.
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