未見官先打三十大板
简 未见官先打三十大板 · 繁 未見官先打三十大板Meanings
- (proverb) saying someone needs to dissipate
- pay out the price before getting what they need
- want
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: wei4 jian4 guan1 xian1 da3 san1 shi2 da4 ban3. It does not establish a Mandarin word with the same meaning.
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Rime Cantonese 粵拼
mei6 gin3 gun1 sin1 daa2 saam1 sap6 daai6 baan2
Cantonese word readings for 未見官先打三十大板. This lexicon supplies readings, not definitions.
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Wiktionary English definitions · Chinese section
Independent source senses for this spelling, with usage labels retained. Not matched to the pronunciation above.
phrase
- (Cantonese) to need to pay a high price before one can get what one wants
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