大頭
See also: 大头
Chinese
big; great; huge big; great; huge; large; major; wide; deep; oldest; eldest; doctor |
head; (noun suffix) | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| trad. (大頭) | 大 | 頭 | |
| simp. (大头) | 大 | 头 | |
| anagram | 頭大／头大 | ||
Pronunciation 1
Noun
大頭
- big head
- 大頭大頭，下雨不愁。人家有傘，你有大頭。 [MSC, trad.]
- From: Part of a well-known nursery rhyme.
- Dàtóu dàtóu, xiàyǔ bù chóu. Rénjiā yǒu sǎn, nǐ yǒu dàtóu. [Pinyin]
- Big head, big head, when it rains you're not worried it's said. Others have umbrellas, you have a big head. (A child might use this jingle to make fun of another child with an unusually large head.)
大头大头，下雨不愁。人家有伞，你有大头。 [MSC, simp.]
- head mask
- person who was ripped off; person deceived on account of his or her generosity; squanderer; spendthrift
Derived terms
Pronunciation 2
Noun
大頭
- silver dollar with the head of Yuan Shikai (as used in the early years of the Republic of China)
- (Cantonese) bighead carp (Hypophthalmichthys nobilis)
- (Cantonese) zoomed in photograph of one's face
Synonyms
Dialectal synonyms of 袁大頭 (“Yuan Shikai dollar”) [map]
| Variety | Location | Words |
|---|---|---|
| Formal (Written Standard Chinese) | 袁大頭, 大頭 | |
| Mandarin | Yantai (Muping) | 袁大頭 |
| Luoyang | 大頭 | |
| Yinchuan | 袁大頭 | |
| Lanzhou | 老人頭, 袁大頭 | |
| Xining | 袁大頭 | |
| Ürümqi | 袁大頭 | |
| Chengdu | 袁大頭, 袁大腦殼 | |
| Guiyang | 袁大頭, 明山大洋 | |
| Liuzhou | 袁頭 | |
| Xuzhou | 大頭 | |
| Yangzhou | 大頭 | |
| Nanjing | 大頭 | |
| Cantonese | Guangzhou | 大頭, 袁頭 |
| Dongguan | 大頭, 袁頭 | |
| Gan | Pingxiang | 大腦殼 |
| Hakka | Yudu | 大腦蓋 |
| Huizhou | Jixi | 袁大頭 |
| Jin | Xinzhou | 大得腦兒 |
| Min Nan | Xiamen | 大頭, 大袁頭 |
| Quanzhou | 大頭 | |
| Zhangzhou | 大頭 | |
| Wu | Shanghai | 袁大頭, 大頭 |
| Suzhou | 大頭 | |
| Hangzhou | 袁大頭, 大頭 | |
| Ningbo | 大頭 | |
| Jinhua | 大頭 | |
Dialectal synonyms of 鱅魚 (“bighead carp”) [map]
Pronunciation 3
Japanese
| Kanji in this term | |
|---|---|
| 大 | 頭 |
| おお Grade: 1 |
かしら > がしら Grade: 2 |
| kun’yomi | |
Noun
大頭 • (ōgashira)
- (usually written with hiragana only) big head; person with a large head.
- decorative black flagpole tassel made from the hair of a yak’s tail, horse’s tail, ox tail, etc., or from hemp.
- leader of a group.
- (ornithology) puffbird (Bucconidae).
- (sports) the first makushita rikishi listed in the sumo banzuke.
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