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

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): dàtóu

  (Zhuyin): ㄉㄚˋ ㄊㄡˊ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): daai⁶ tau⁴
• Hakka (Sixian, PFS): thai-thèu
• Southern Min (Hokkien, POJ): tōa-thâu

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: dàtóu
    • Zhuyin: ㄉㄚˋ ㄊㄡˊ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: dàtóu
    • Wade–Giles: ta⁴-tʻou²
    • Yale: dà-tóu
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: dahtour
    • Palladius: датоу (datou)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /tä⁵¹ tʰoʊ̯³⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
    • Jyutping: daai⁶ tau⁴
    • Yale: daaih tàuh
    • Cantonese Pinyin: daai⁶ tau⁴
    • Guangdong Romanization: dai⁶ teo⁴
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /taːi̯²² tʰɐu̯²¹/
• Hakka
  • (Sixian, incl. Miaoli and Meinong)
    • Pha̍k-fa-sṳ: thai-thèu
    • Hakka Romanization System: tai teuˇ
    • Hagfa Pinyim: tai⁴ teu²
    • Sinological IPA: /tʰai̯⁵⁵ tʰeu̯¹¹/
• Southern Min
  • (Hokkien)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: tōa-thâu
    • Tâi-lô: tuā-thâu
    • Phofsit Daibuun: doaxtaau
    • IPA (Xiamen): /tua²²⁻²¹ tʰau²⁴/
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /tua⁴¹⁻²² tʰau²⁴/
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /tua²²⁻²¹ tʰau¹³/
    • IPA (Taipei): /tua³³⁻¹¹ tʰau²⁴/
    • IPA (Kaohsiung): /tua³³⁻²¹ tʰau²³/

Noun

(deprecated template usage) 大頭

1. big head

   大頭大頭，下雨不愁。人家有傘，你有大頭。 [MSC, trad.]
   大头大头，下雨不愁。人家有伞，你有大头。 [MSC, simp.]

   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.)

2. mask
3. main point
4. person with more money than sense; spendthrift; wastrel
5. silver dollar with the head of Yuan Shikai (as used in the early years of the Republic of China)

Synonyms

• (silver dollar): 袁大頭／袁大头 (yuándàtóu), 袁頭／袁头 (yuántóu)

Derived terms

(deprecated template usage)

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Japanese

Kanji in this term
大	頭
おお Grade: 1	かしら > がしら Grade: 2
kun'yomi

Noun

大(おお)頭(がしら) • (ōgashira) 

1. (usually written with hiragana only) big head; person with a large head.
2. decorative black flagpole tassel made from the hair of a yak’s tail, horse’s tail, ox tail, etc., or from hemp.
3. leader of a group.
4. (ornithology) puffbird (Bucconidae).
5. (sports) the first makushita rikishi listed in the sumo banzuke.