無大無小
Chinese edit
| not have | big; great; huge big; great; huge; large; major; wide; deep; oldest; eldest; doctor |
not have | small; tiny; few small; tiny; few; young | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| trad. (無大無小) | 無 | 大 | 無 | 小 | |
| simp. (无大无小) | 无 | 大 | 无 | 小 | |
Pronunciation edit
Idiom edit
無大無小
- (Northern Min, Shadi Wu) to have no sense of who is senior and who is junior; to show no respect to elders
Synonyms edit
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]
| Variety | Location | Words |
|---|---|---|
| Formal (Written Standard Chinese) | 沒大沒小 | |
| Mandarin | Taiwan | 沒大沒小 |
| Harbin | 沒大沒小, 沒老沒少 | |
| Yantai (Muping) | 沒大沒小 | |
| Xi'an | 沒大沒小 | |
| Yinchuan | 沒大小, 沒大沒小 | |
| Yangzhou | 不上不下, 沒大沒小 | |
| Nanjing | 十裡八搭 | |
| Singapore | 沒大沒小 | |
| Cantonese | Guangzhou | 冇大冇細 |
| Hong Kong | 冇大冇細 | |
| Taishan | 冇大冇細 | |
| Dongguan | 冇大冇細 | |
| Singapore (Guangfu) | 冇大冇細 | |
| Gan | Nanchang | 冒大冒細 |
| Hakka | Meixian | 無上無下 |
| Huizhou (Huicheng Bendihua) | 冇大冇細 | |
| Miaoli (N. Sixian) | 無大無細, 無老無大, 無上無下 | |
| Pingtung (Neipu; S. Sixian) | 無大無細, 無老無大, 無上無下 | |
| Hsinchu County (Zhudong; Hailu) | 無大無細, 無老無大, 無上無下 | |
| Taichung (Dongshi; Dabu) | 無大無細, 無老無大, 無上無下 | |
| Hsinchu County (Qionglin; Raoping) | 無大無細, 無老無大, 無上無下 | |
| Yunlin (Lunbei; Zhao'an) | 無大無細, 無上無下 | |
| Jin | Taiyuan | 沒大沒小 |
| Northern Min | Jian'ou | 無大無小 |
| Eastern Min | Fuzhou | 無大無細 |
| Southern Min | Xiamen | 無大無細 |
| Quanzhou | 無大無細 | |
| Zhangzhou | 無大無細 | |
| Tainan | 無大無細 | |
| Singapore (Hokkien) | 無大無細 | |
| Manila (Hokkien) | 無大無細 | |
| Jieyang | 無大無細 | |
| Wu | Shanghai | 嘸大嘸小 |
| Shanghai (Chongming) | 嘸大嘸小 | |
| Suzhou | 嘸大小, 嘸大嘸小 | |
| Xiang | Changsha | 冇上冇下, 冇大冇細, 冇得大細 |
| Loudi | 冇大冇小 | |