豬頭骨

Chinese

		hog; pig; swine	cranium; skull
trad. (豬頭骨)		豬	頭骨
simp. (猪头骨)		猪	头骨
Literally: “pig's cranium”.

Etymology

The second part of the xiehouyu is 難啃兼冇肉 / 难啃兼冇肉 (“hard to chew and not much meat”).

Pronunciation

• Cantonese (Jyutping): zyu¹ tau⁴ gwat¹

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• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
    • Jyutping: zyu¹ tau⁴ gwat¹
    • Yale: jyū tàuh gwāt
    • Cantonese Pinyin: dzy¹ tau⁴ gwat⁷
    • Guangdong Romanization: ju¹ teo⁴ gued¹
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /t͡syː⁵⁵ tʰɐu̯²¹ kʷɐt̚⁵/

Noun

豬頭骨

1. (Cantonese, figurative) work with high effort and low payoff (Classifier: 件 c)