大跌眼鏡
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Chinese[edit]
big; great; huge big; great; huge; large; major; wide; deep; oldest; eldest; doctor |
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trad. (大跌眼鏡) | 大 | 跌眼鏡 | |
simp. (大跌眼镜) | 大 | 跌眼镜 |
Etymology[edit]
Literally “to suddenly drop one's eyeglasses”; said to be in reference to earlier, loosely-fitted glasses which fell off easily.
Pronunciation[edit]
- Mandarin
- Cantonese (Jyutping): daai6 dit3 ngaan5 geng3-2
- Southern Min (Teochew, Peng'im): dai6 diag4 ngang2 gêng3
- Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese, Mainland)+
- Hanyu Pinyin:
- Zhuyin: ㄉㄚˋ ㄉㄧㄝ ㄧㄢˇ ㄐㄧㄥˋ
- Tongyong Pinyin: dàdieyǎnjìng
- Wade–Giles: ta4-tieh1-yen3-ching4
- Yale: dà-dyē-yǎn-jìng
- Gwoyeu Romatzyh: dahdieyeanjinq
- Palladius: дадеяньцзин (dadejanʹczin)
- Sinological IPA (key): /tä⁵¹ ti̯ɛ⁵⁵ jɛn²¹⁴⁻²¹ t͡ɕiŋ⁵¹/
- (Standard Chinese, Taiwan)+
- Hanyu Pinyin:
- Zhuyin: ㄉㄚˋ ㄉㄧㄝˊ ㄧㄢˇ ㄐㄧㄥˋ
- Tongyong Pinyin: dàdiéyǎnjìng
- Wade–Giles: ta4-tieh2-yen3-ching4
- Yale: dà-dyé-yǎn-jìng
- Gwoyeu Romatzyh: dahdyeyeanjinq
- Palladius: дадеяньцзин (dadejanʹczin)
- Sinological IPA (key): /tä⁵¹ ti̯ɛ³⁵ jɛn²¹⁴⁻²¹ t͡ɕiŋ⁵¹/
- (Standard Chinese, Mainland)+
- Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)+
- Jyutping: daai6 dit3 ngaan5 geng3-2
- Yale: daaih dit ngáahn géng
- Cantonese Pinyin: daai6 dit8 ngaan5 geng3-2
- Guangdong Romanization: dai6 did3 ngan5 géng3-2
- Sinological IPA (key): /taːi̯²² tiːt̚³ ŋaːn¹³ kɛːŋ³³⁻³⁵/
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)+
- Southern Min
- (Teochew)
- Peng'im: dai6 diag4 ngang2 gêng3
- Pe̍h-ōe-jī-like: tăi tiak ngáng kèng
- Sinological IPA (key): /tai³⁵⁻¹¹ tiak̚²⁻⁴ ŋaŋ⁵²⁻³⁵ keŋ²¹³/
- (Teochew)
Idiom[edit]
大跌眼鏡
- (figurative) to have one's jaws drop (often in a bad way); to be greatly surprised or astonished; to be dumbfounded
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