顧得頭嚟腳反筋

简 顾得头嚟脚反筋 · 繁 顧得頭嚟腳反筋
Cantonese · source Jyutpinggu3 dak1 tau4 lai4 goek3 faan2 gan1

Meanings

  1. to attend to one thing and lose another; to focus on one thing and neglect another thing; to pay attention to one aspect and overlook another
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Reading & tones

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Same syllable, six tones

dak德dak1virtuedak2—dak3—dak4—dak5—特dak6special
goekgoek1—goek2—脚goek3footgoek4—goek5—goek6—

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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CC-Canto includes this pinyin reference: gu4 de2 tou2 li2 jiao3 fan3 jin1. It does not establish a Mandarin word with the same meaning.

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CC-Canto · Pleco Inc. · edition 2017-02-02
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Exact source record & identity顧得頭嚟腳反筋 顾得头嚟脚反筋 [gu4 de2 tou2 li2 jiao3 fan3 jin1] {gu3 dak1 tau4 lai4 goek3 faan2 gan1} /to attend to one thing and lose another; to focus on one thing and neglect another thing; to pay attention to one aspect and overlook another/

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