冇瓦遮頭
Appearance
Chinese
[edit]not have (dialectal) | tile | cover up (a shortcoming); screen off; to hide cover up (a shortcoming); screen off; to hide; to conceal |
head; (noun suffix) | ||
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trad. (冇瓦遮頭) | 冇 | 瓦 | 遮 | 頭 | |
simp. (冇瓦遮头) | 冇 | 瓦 | 遮 | 头 |
Pronunciation
[edit]- Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)+
- Jyutping: mou5 ngaa5 ze1 tau4
- Yale: móuh ngáh jē tàuh
- Cantonese Pinyin: mou5 ngaa5 dze1 tau4
- Guangdong Romanization: mou5 nga5 zé1 teo4
- Sinological IPA (key): /mou̯¹³ ŋaː¹³ t͡sɛː⁵⁵ tʰɐu̯²¹/
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)+
Verb
[edit]冇瓦遮頭 (Cantonese)
- (literary) to have no roof; to be unroofed
- (figuratively) to not have a place to live; to have no sheltered home