無大無小
Chinese
[edit]| not have | big; great; huge big; great; huge; large; major; wide; deep; oldest; eldest; doctor |
not have | small; tiny; few small; tiny; few; young | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| trad. (無大無小) | 無 | 大 | 無 | 小 | |
| simp. (无大无小) | 无 | 大 | 无 | 小 | |
Pronunciation
[edit]- Northern Min (KCR): mǎu-duōi-mǎu-siǎu
- Northern Min
- (Jian'ou)
- Kienning Colloquial Romanized: mǎu-duōi-mǎu-siǎu
- Sinological IPA (key): /mau²¹ tuɛ⁵⁵ mau²¹ siau²¹/
- (Jian'ou)
Idiom
[edit]無大無小
- (Northern Min, Shadi Wu) to have no sense of who is senior and who is junior; to show no respect to elders
Synonyms
[edit]Dialectal synonyms of 沒大沒小 (“to have no sense of who is senior and who is junior; to show no respect to elders”) [map]