腦細
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Chinese[edit]
brain | fine; minutely; thin fine; minutely; thin; slender | ||
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trad. (腦細) | 腦 | 細 | |
simp. (脑细) | 脑 | 细 | |
Literally: “brain is small”. |
Etymology[edit]
Near-homophonic pun on 老細/老细 (lou5 sai3), joking on the narrow-mindedness of bosses.
Pronunciation[edit]
- Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)+
- Jyutping: nou5 sai3
- Yale: nóuh sai
- Cantonese Pinyin: nou5 sai3
- Guangdong Romanization: nou5 sei3
- Sinological IPA (key): /nou̯¹³ sɐi̯³³/
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)+
Noun[edit]
腦細