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冤大头

yuān dà tóudictionary entry
DEFINITION CC-CEDICT
spendthrift and foolish / sb with more money than sense
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Reference definitions: CC-CEDICT contributors and MDBG, CC BY-SA 4.0. Source release 2026-10-27T01:55:52Z. Imported 2026-10-27. Definition wording and meaning order are retained. Recognized pronunciation references are displayed with tone marks; the original source record is available below.

Source record: cd-3e10dd0e17ded51f. Source SHA-256: bbc4b27f26bee1a262f4d7939667a040c7857c7fc0200a2fa7a86d3352a09eae.

Original source entry:

冤大頭 冤大头 [yuan1 da4 tou2] /spendthrift and foolish/sb with more money than sense/

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Reference information

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Other forms in these source records: 冤大頭

  • 冤
    yuān

    injustice / grievance / wrong

  • 大
    dà

    big; large; great / older (than another person) / eldest (as in 大姐[dà jiě]) / greatly; freely; fully / (dialect) father / (dialect) uncle (father's brother)

    dài

    see 大夫[dài fu]

  • 头
    tóu

    head / hair style / the top / end / beginning or end / a stub / remnant / chief / boss / side / aspect / first / leading / classifier for pigs or livestock / CL:個|个[gè]

    tou

    suffix for nouns

Reference definitions from CC-CEDICT.