大而無當

Chinese

		big; great; huge big; great; huge; large; major; wide; deep; oldest; eldest; doctor	and; as well as; but (not) and; as well as; but (not); yet (not); (shows causal relation); (shows change of state); (shows contrast)
trad. (大而無當)		大	而	無當
simp. (大而无当)		大	而	无当

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): dà'érwúdàng

  (Zhuyin): ㄉㄚˋ ㄦˊ ㄨˊ ㄉㄤˋ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): daai⁶ ji⁴ mou⁴ dong³

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: dà'érwúdàng
    • Zhuyin: ㄉㄚˋ ㄦˊ ㄨˊ ㄉㄤˋ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: dà-érwúdàng
    • Wade–Giles: ta⁴-êrh²-wu²-tang⁴
    • Yale: dà-ér-wú-dàng
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: daherlwudanq
    • Palladius: даэрудан (daerudan)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /tä⁵¹ ˀɤɻ³⁵ u³⁵ tɑŋ⁵¹/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
    • Jyutping: daai⁶ ji⁴ mou⁴ dong³
    • Yale: daaih yìh mòuh dong
    • Cantonese Pinyin: daai⁶ ji⁴ mou⁴ dong³
    • Guangdong Romanization: dai⁶ yi⁴ mou⁴ dong³
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /taːi̯²² jiː²¹ mou̯²¹ tɔːŋ³³/

Idiom

(deprecated template usage) 大而無當

1. large but impractical; unwieldy

   大而無當的計劃 [MSC, trad.]
   大而无当的计划 [MSC, simp.]

   dà'érwúdàng de jìhuà [Pinyin]

   a grandiose but impractical plan