大蛇屙屎

Chinese

		big; great; huge big; great; huge; large; major; wide; deep; oldest; eldest; doctor	snake; serpent	to defecate
trad. (大蛇屙屎)		大	蛇	屙屎
simp. #(大蛇屙屎)		大	蛇	屙屎
Literally: “big snake defecating”.

Pronunciation

• Cantonese (Jyutping): daai⁶ se⁴ o¹ si²
• Hakka (Meixian, Guangdong): tai⁴ sa² o¹ si³

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• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
    • Jyutping: daai⁶ se⁴ o¹ si²
    • Yale: daaih sèh ō sí
    • Cantonese Pinyin: daai⁶ se⁴ o¹ si²
    • Guangdong Romanization: dai⁶ sé⁴ o¹ xi²
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /taːi̯²² sɛː²¹ ɔː⁵⁵ siː³⁵/
• Hakka
  • (Meixian)
    • Guangdong: tai⁴ sa² o¹ si³
    • Sinological IPA: /tʰaɪ⁵³⁻⁵⁵ sa¹¹ o⁴⁴⁻³⁵ sz̩³¹/

Idiom

大蛇屙屎

1. (Cantonese, Hakka, figuratively) very rare things or phenomena

   未見過大蛇屙屎 [Cantonese, trad.]
   未见过大蛇屙屎 [Cantonese, simp.]

   mei⁶ gin³ gwo³ daai⁶ se⁴ o¹ si² [Jyutping]

   never having seen big things before (and therefore considering a normal thing remarkable due to ignorance)

Synonyms

• 大蛇屙尿