冇大冇細
Chinese
| not have (dialectal) | big; great; huge big; great; huge; large; major; wide; deep; oldest; eldest; doctor |
not have (dialectal) | fine; minutely; thin fine; minutely; thin; slender | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| trad. (冇大冇細) | 冇 | 大 | 冇 | 細 | |
| simp. (冇大冇细) | 冇 | 大 | 冇 | 细 | |
Pronunciation
- Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)+
- Jyutping: mou5 daai6 mou5 sai3
- Yale: móuh daaih móuh sai
- Cantonese Pinyin: mou5 daai6 mou5 sai3
- Guangdong Romanization: mou5 dai6 mou5 sei3
- Sinological IPA (key): /mou̯¹³ taːi̯²² mou̯¹³ sɐi̯³³/
- (Taishanese, Taicheng)
- Wiktionary: mau1 ai5 mau1 lhai1*
- Sinological IPA (key): /ᵐbau³³ ai³² ᵐbau³³ ɬai³³⁻³³⁵/
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)+
- Xiang
Idiom
冇大冇細
- (Cantonese, Xiang) to have no sense of who is senior and who is junior; to show no respect to elders
Synonyms
Dialectal synonyms of 沒大沒小 (“to have no sense of who is senior and who is junior; to show no respect to elders”) [map]