大蛇屙屎

Chinese

	big; great; huge big; great; huge; large; major; wide; deep; oldest; eldest; doctor	snake; serpent	to defecate
trad. (大蛇屙屎)	大	蛇	屙屎
simp. ^#(大蛇屙屎)	大	蛇	屙屎
Literally: “big snake defecating”.

Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
  - Jyutping: daai⁶ se⁴ o¹ si²
  - Yale: daaih sèh ō sí
  - Cantonese Pinyin: daai⁶ se⁴ o¹ si²
  - Guangdong Romanization: dai⁶ sé⁴ o¹ xi²
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /taːi̯²² sɛː²¹ ɔː⁵⁵ siː³⁵/
Hakka
- (Meixian)
  - Guangdong: tai⁴ sa² o¹ si³
  - Sinological IPA: /tʰaɪ⁵³⁻⁵⁵ sa¹¹ o⁴⁴⁻³⁵ sz̩³¹/

大蛇屙屎

(Cantonese, Hakka, figuratively) very rare things or phenomena
未見過大蛇屙屎 [Cantonese, trad.]
未见过大蛇屙屎 [Cantonese, simp.]
mei⁶ gin³ gwo³ daai⁶ se⁴ o¹ si² [Jyutping]
never having seen big things before (and therefore considering a normal thing remarkable due to ignorance)

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