飲頭啖湯

Chinese

		drink	head; (noun suffix)	eat; taste; entice (with a bait)	soup; hot water
trad. (飲頭啖湯)		飲	頭	啖	湯
simp. (饮头啖汤)		饮	头	啖	汤
Literally: “to drink the first mouthful of soup”.

Pronunciation

• Cantonese (Jyutping): jam² tau⁴ daam⁶ tong¹

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• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
    • Jyutping: jam² tau⁴ daam⁶ tong¹
    • Yale: yám tàuh daahm tōng
    • Cantonese Pinyin: jam² tau⁴ daam⁶ tong¹
    • Guangdong Romanization: yem² teo⁴ dam⁶ tong¹
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /jɐm³⁵ tʰɐu̯²¹ taːm²² tʰɔːŋ⁵⁵/

Idiom

飲頭啖湯

1. (Cantonese) to be the first in doing something; to gain the first profits