See 寧為雞頭，不做鳳尾 in All languages combined, or Wiktionary
{
"forms": [
{
"form": "寧爲鷄頭，不做鳳尾",
"raw_tags": [
"Traditional Chinese"
]
},
{
"form": "宁为鸡头，不做凤尾",
"raw_tags": [
"Simplified Chinese"
]
}
],
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "zh",
"2": "idiom"
},
"expansion": "寧為雞頭，不做鳳尾",
"name": "head"
}
],
"lang": "Chinese",
"lang_code": "zh",
"pos": "phrase",
"senses": [
{
"categories": [
{
"kind": "other",
"name": "Chinese entries with incorrect language header",
"parents": [
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"Entry maintenance"
],
"source": "w"
},
{
"kind": "other",
"name": "Mandarin words containing 不 undergoing tone sandhi",
"parents": [],
"source": "w"
},
{
"kind": "other",
"name": "Pages with 1 entry",
"parents": [],
"source": "w"
},
{
"kind": "other",
"name": "Pages with entries",
"parents": [],
"source": "w"
}
],
"glosses": [
"to prefer to stand out from a mediocre crowd than to be a nobody among an exceptional crowd"
],
"id": "en-寧為雞頭，不做鳳尾-zh-phrase-GEOInwq5",
"links": [
[
"prefer",
"prefer"
],
[
"stand out",
"stand out"
],
[
"mediocre",
"mediocre"
],
[
"crowd",
"crowd"
],
[
"nobody",
"nobody"
],
[
"exceptional",
"exceptional"
]
],
"related": [
{
"roman": "níng wéi jīkǒu, wú wéi niúhòu",
"word": "寧為雞口，無為牛後／宁为鸡口，无为牛后"
}
],
"tags": [
"idiomatic"
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"tags": [
"Mandarin",
"Pinyin"
],
"zh-pron": "nìng wéi jītóu"
},
{
"tags": [
"Mandarin",
"Pinyin"
],
"zh-pron": "bù zuò fèngwěi"
},
{
"tags": [
"Mandarin",
"bopomofo"
],
"zh-pron": "ㄋㄧㄥˋ ㄨㄟˊ ㄐㄧ ㄊㄡˊ"
},
{
"tags": [
"Mandarin",
"bopomofo"
],
"zh-pron": "ㄅㄨˋ ㄗㄨㄛˋ ㄈㄥˋ ㄨㄟˇ"
},
{
"tags": [
"Hanyu-Pinyin",
"Mandarin"
],
"zh-pron": "nìng wéi jītóu"
},
{
"tags": [
"Hanyu-Pinyin",
"Mandarin"
],
"zh-pron": "bù zuò fèngwěi [Phonetic:nìng wéi jītóu"
},
{
"tags": [
"Hanyu-Pinyin",
"Mandarin"
],
"zh-pron": "bú zuò fèngwěi]"
},
{
"tags": [
"Mandarin",
"Tongyong-Pinyin"
],
"zh-pron": "nìng wéi jitóu"
},
{
"tags": [
"Mandarin",
"Tongyong-Pinyin"
],
"zh-pron": "bù zuò fòngwěi"
},
{
"tags": [
"Mandarin",
"Wade-Giles"
],
"zh-pron": "ning⁴ wei² chi¹-tʻou²"
},
{
"tags": [
"Mandarin",
"Wade-Giles"
],
"zh-pron": "pu⁴ tso⁴ fêng⁴-wei³"
},
{
"tags": [
"Mandarin",
"Yale"
],
"zh-pron": "nìng wéi jī-tóu-"
},
{
"tags": [
"Mandarin",
"Yale"
],
"zh-pron": "bù dzwò fèng-wěi"
},
{
"tags": [
"Gwoyeu-Romatsyh",
"Mandarin"
],
"zh-pron": "ninq wei jitour"
},
{
"tags": [
"Gwoyeu-Romatsyh",
"Mandarin"
],
"zh-pron": "bu tzuoh fenqwoei"
},
{
"tags": [
"Mandarin",
"Palladius"
],
"zh-pron": "нин вэй цзитоу"
},
{
"tags": [
"Mandarin",
"Palladius"
],
"zh-pron": "бу цзо фэнвэй"
},
{
"tags": [
"Mandarin",
"Palladius"
],
"zh-pron": "nin vɛj czitou"
},
{
"tags": [
"Mandarin",
"Palladius"
],
"zh-pron": "bu czo fɛnvɛj"
},
{
"ipa": "/niŋ⁵¹ weɪ̯³⁵ t͡ɕi⁵⁵ tʰoʊ̯³⁵ pu⁵¹⁻³⁵ t͡su̯ɔ⁵¹⁻⁵³ fɤŋ⁵¹ weɪ̯²¹⁴⁻²¹⁽⁴⁾/",
"tags": [
"Mandarin",
"Sinological-IPA"
]
},
{
"ipa": "/niŋ⁵¹ weɪ̯³⁵ t͡ɕi⁵⁵ tʰoʊ̯³⁵ pu⁵¹⁻³⁵ t͡su̯ɔ⁵¹⁻⁵³ fɤŋ⁵¹ weɪ̯²¹⁴⁻²¹⁽⁴⁾/"
}
],
"word": "寧為雞頭，不做鳳尾"
}
{
"forms": [
{
"form": "寧爲鷄頭，不做鳳尾",
"raw_tags": [
"Traditional Chinese"
]
},
{
"form": "宁为鸡头，不做凤尾",
"raw_tags": [
"Simplified Chinese"
]
}
],
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"args": {
"1": "zh",
"2": "idiom"
},
"expansion": "寧為雞頭，不做鳳尾",
"name": "head"
}
],
"lang": "Chinese",
"lang_code": "zh",
"pos": "phrase",
"related": [
{
"roman": "níng wéi jīkǒu, wú wéi niúhòu",
"word": "寧為雞口，無為牛後／宁为鸡口，无为牛后"
}
],
"senses": [
{
"categories": [
"Chinese entries with incorrect language header",
"Chinese idioms",
"Chinese lemmas",
"Chinese terms spelled with 不",
"Chinese terms spelled with 做",
"Chinese terms spelled with 寧",
"Chinese terms spelled with 尾",
"Chinese terms spelled with 為",
"Chinese terms spelled with 雞",
"Chinese terms spelled with 頭",
"Chinese terms spelled with 鳳",
"Chinese terms with IPA pronunciation",
"Mandarin idioms",
"Mandarin lemmas",
"Mandarin words containing 不 undergoing tone sandhi",
"Pages with 1 entry",
"Pages with entries"
],
"glosses": [
"to prefer to stand out from a mediocre crowd than to be a nobody among an exceptional crowd"
],
"links": [
[
"prefer",
"prefer"
],
[
"stand out",
"stand out"
],
[
"mediocre",
"mediocre"
],
[
"crowd",
"crowd"
],
[
"nobody",
"nobody"
],
[
"exceptional",
"exceptional"
]
],
"tags": [
"idiomatic"
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"tags": [
"Mandarin",
"Pinyin"
],
"zh-pron": "nìng wéi jītóu"
},
{
"tags": [
"Mandarin",
"Pinyin"
],
"zh-pron": "bù zuò fèngwěi"
},
{
"tags": [
"Mandarin",
"bopomofo"
],
"zh-pron": "ㄋㄧㄥˋ ㄨㄟˊ ㄐㄧ ㄊㄡˊ"
},
{
"tags": [
"Mandarin",
"bopomofo"
],
"zh-pron": "ㄅㄨˋ ㄗㄨㄛˋ ㄈㄥˋ ㄨㄟˇ"
},
{
"tags": [
"Hanyu-Pinyin",
"Mandarin"
],
"zh-pron": "nìng wéi jītóu"
},
{
"tags": [
"Hanyu-Pinyin",
"Mandarin"
],
"zh-pron": "bù zuò fèngwěi [Phonetic:nìng wéi jītóu"
},
{
"tags": [
"Hanyu-Pinyin",
"Mandarin"
],
"zh-pron": "bú zuò fèngwěi]"
},
{
"tags": [
"Mandarin",
"Tongyong-Pinyin"
],
"zh-pron": "nìng wéi jitóu"
},
{
"tags": [
"Mandarin",
"Tongyong-Pinyin"
],
"zh-pron": "bù zuò fòngwěi"
},
{
"tags": [
"Mandarin",
"Wade-Giles"
],
"zh-pron": "ning⁴ wei² chi¹-tʻou²"
},
{
"tags": [
"Mandarin",
"Wade-Giles"
],
"zh-pron": "pu⁴ tso⁴ fêng⁴-wei³"
},
{
"tags": [
"Mandarin",
"Yale"
],
"zh-pron": "nìng wéi jī-tóu-"
},
{
"tags": [
"Mandarin",
"Yale"
],
"zh-pron": "bù dzwò fèng-wěi"
},
{
"tags": [
"Gwoyeu-Romatsyh",
"Mandarin"
],
"zh-pron": "ninq wei jitour"
},
{
"tags": [
"Gwoyeu-Romatsyh",
"Mandarin"
],
"zh-pron": "bu tzuoh fenqwoei"
},
{
"tags": [
"Mandarin",
"Palladius"
],
"zh-pron": "нин вэй цзитоу"
},
{
"tags": [
"Mandarin",
"Palladius"
],
"zh-pron": "бу цзо фэнвэй"
},
{
"tags": [
"Mandarin",
"Palladius"
],
"zh-pron": "nin vɛj czitou"
},
{
"tags": [
"Mandarin",
"Palladius"
],
"zh-pron": "bu czo fɛnvɛj"
},
{
"ipa": "/niŋ⁵¹ weɪ̯³⁵ t͡ɕi⁵⁵ tʰoʊ̯³⁵ pu⁵¹⁻³⁵ t͡su̯ɔ⁵¹⁻⁵³ fɤŋ⁵¹ weɪ̯²¹⁴⁻²¹⁽⁴⁾/",
"tags": [
"Mandarin",
"Sinological-IPA"
]
},
{
"ipa": "/niŋ⁵¹ weɪ̯³⁵ t͡ɕi⁵⁵ tʰoʊ̯³⁵ pu⁵¹⁻³⁵ t͡su̯ɔ⁵¹⁻⁵³ fɤŋ⁵¹ weɪ̯²¹⁴⁻²¹⁽⁴⁾/"
}
],
"word": "寧為雞頭，不做鳳尾"
}
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