大不如前

Chinese

		big; great; huge big; great; huge; large; major; wide; deep; oldest; eldest; doctor	to be not like; to be not equal to; to be not as good as to be not like; to be not equal to; to be not as good as; cannot compare to; to be inferior to	front, forepart; in front; past front, forepart; in front; past; former; previous; last; before; preceding; earlier; ago; future; time ahead; first; top; battlefront; to move forward
trad. (大不如前)		大	不如	前
simp. ^#(大不如前)		大	不如	前

Pronunciation

Mandarin
(Pinyin): dàbùrúqián

(Zhuyin): ㄉㄚˋ ㄅㄨˋ ㄖㄨˊ ㄑㄧㄢˊ
Cantonese (Jyutping): daai⁶ bat¹ jyu⁴ cin⁴
Min Nan (Hokkien, POJ): tāi-put-jû-chiân / tāi-put-jî-chiân

Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese)⁺
  - Hanyu Pinyin: dàbùrúqián
  - Zhuyin: ㄉㄚˋ ㄅㄨˋ ㄖㄨˊ ㄑㄧㄢˊ
  - Tongyong Pinyin: dàbùrúcián
  - Wade–Giles: ta⁴-pu⁴-ju²-chʻien²
  - Yale: dà-bù-rú-chyán
  - Gwoyeu Romatzyh: dahburuchyan
  - Palladius: дабужуцянь (dabužucjanʹ)
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /tä⁵¹⁻⁵³ pu⁵¹ ʐu³⁵ t͡ɕʰi̯ɛn³⁵/
Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
  - Jyutping: daai⁶ bat¹ jyu⁴ cin⁴
  - Yale: daaih bāt yùh chìhn
  - Cantonese Pinyin: daai⁶ bat⁷ jy⁴ tsin⁴
  - Guangdong Romanization: dai⁶ bed¹ yu⁴ qin⁴
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /taːi̯²² pɐt̚⁵ jyː²¹ t͡sʰiːn²¹/
Min Nan
- (Hokkien: General Taiwanese)
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī: tāi-put-jû-chiân
  - Tâi-lô: tāi-put-jû-tsiân
  - Phofsit Daibuun: daixputjucieen
  - IPA (Kaohsiung): /tai³³⁻²¹ put̚³²⁻⁴ zu²³⁻³³ t͡ɕiɛn²³/
- (Hokkien: variant in Taiwan)
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī: tāi-put-jî-chiân
  - Tâi-lô: tāi-put-jî-tsiân
  - Phofsit Daibuun: daixputjicieen
  - IPA (Kaohsiung): /tai³³⁻²¹ put̚³²⁻⁴ ʑi²³⁻³³ t͡ɕiɛn²³/

Idiom

大不如前

to be much worse than it was before
他已經七十多歲了，體力大不如前。 [MSC, trad.]
他已经七十多岁了，体力大不如前。 [MSC, simp.]
Tā yǐjīng qīshí duō suì le, tǐlì dàbùrúqián. [Pinyin]
He is in his seventies. He does not have as much energy as before.

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