粵

大daai6頭tau2

simp大头
daai6 tau2dà tóu

English

  1. big head
  2. mask in the shape of a big head
  3. the larger end of sth
  4. the main part
  5. the lion's share
  6. dupe
  7. sucker
  8. (old) silver coin with a bust of Yuan Shikai 袁世凱|袁世凯[Yuan2 Shi4 kai3] on the obverse side
  9. head shot when taking photo or video; head portrait

粵語 — Cantonese

  1. 突出人物頭部嘅相片、影像或者肖像

Examples

  • 呢個大頭佛係湯姆搞出來嘅。

    Tom created this mess.

    Tatoeba · thesilhouette CC BY

  • 大頭相

    head shot photo

  • 袁大頭

    Yuan Shikai coinage (in the Republican era in China); literally: Yuan's big head

  • 下個鏡頭我哋會俾個大頭佢

    In the coming shot we will take a head shot of him.

Sources: cc-cedict, rime-cantonese, words.hk

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