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眼睛生響頭頂

简眼睛生响头顶 · 繁眼睛生響頭頂

Cantonese · source Jyutpingngaan5 zing1 saang1 hoeng2 tau4 deng2

a metaphor to describe someone who is very arrogant

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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.

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Reading & tones

ngaan55 · low risingzing11 · high levelsaang11 · high levelhoeng22 · high risingtau44 · low fallingdeng22 · high rising

Schematic citation-tone diagrams from the source numbers. These are not recordings or predictions of connected speech.

Reading difference from Unihan

生 has the reading saang1 here; Unihan’s citation reading is sang1. Different syllable across these source readings. CC-Canto also lists 生 saang1 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

ngaanngaan1—ngaan2—ngaan3—颜ngaan4color 眼ngaan5eye 雁ngaan6wild goose

zing精zing1essence 整zing2exactly 正zing3straightzing4—zing5—静zing6still

saangsaang1—省saang2to savesaang3—saang4—saang5—saang6—

hoeng香hoeng1fragrant 响hoeng2echo 向hoeng3to preferhoeng4—hoeng5—hoeng6—

tau偷tau1to stealtau2—透tau3to penetrate 头tau4headtau5—tau6—

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.

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Written characters

眼睛生響頭頂响头顶

Both source spellings are represented. Written membership is not an etymological or semantic claim.

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Mandarin comparison · separate source entries

CC-Canto includes this pinyin reference: yan3 jing5 sheng1 xiang3 tou2 ding3. It does not establish a Mandarin word with the same meaning.

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ngaan5 zing1 saang1 hoeng2 tau4 deng2

Cantonese word readings for 眼睛生響頭頂. This lexicon supplies readings, not definitions.

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