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人頭豬腦

jan4 tau4 zyu1 nou5

a stupid person; literally the head of a person but the brains of a pig.

Somewhat unfair to our porcine friends of course, as pigs have been shown to be very intelligent!

Level: 2
This term is used in Cantonese, not Mandarin/Standard written Chinese. 粵

人頭豬腦

This word was added by sheik on 13th Mar 2006 and last edited on 30th Oct 2008

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人 jan4 jan4*2 ren2 - person
頭 tau4 tau4*2 tou2 {tou5} - head
豬 zyu1 zhu1 zhe1 - pig
腦 nou5 nao3 nao4 - the brain

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