粵

齊cai4頭tau4

simp齐头
cai4 tau4qí tóu

English

  1. at the same time
  2. simultaneously
  3. (when stating a quantity that is a round number) exactly
  4. usually used for bargaining (to avoid change or making an auspicious number) to round up or round down a price to the tens

粵語 — Cantonese

  1. 通常用於錢銀上,為找續方便或者好意頭,透過增加或減少金額令數目嘅尾數變變為0

Examples

  • 齊頭數

    round number

  • 七十一咁零丁,不如齊頭收七十啦。

    Seventy-one sounds imperfect. How about rounding it off to 70?

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

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