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巨無霸

简巨无霸 · 繁巨無霸

Mandarin · pinyin jù wú bà#

giant
leviathan

Mandarin · pinyin Jù wú bà#

Big Mac (McDonald's hamburger)

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巨: jù · large, great, enormous; chief
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霸: bà · rule by might rather than right
无: wú · negative, no, not; Kangxi radical 71

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4–2–4 · ju4 wu2 ba4

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geoi6 mou4 baa3

Cantonese word readings for 巨無霸. This lexicon supplies readings, not definitions.

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name

(alt-of, alternative) alternative form of 巨毋霸 (jùwúbà, “name of a fictional giant”)

noun

(figurative) big or invincible person or thing; giant; colossus; monster
(figurative, slang) huge breasts, or a person with huge breasts
(Mainland China, Hong Kong) Big Mac (hamburger from McDonald's)

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