# 大驚小怪
## Chinese

| | | big; great; hugebig; great; huge; large; major; wide; deep; oldest; eldest; doctor | to startle; to be frightened; to be scaredto startle; to be frightened; to be scared; alarm | small; tiny; fewsmall; tiny; few; young | queer; to blame |
| trad. (大驚小怪) | trad. (大驚小怪) | 大 | 驚 | 小 | 怪 |
| simp. (大惊小怪) | simp. (大惊小怪) | 大 | 惊 | 小 | 怪 |

### Pronunciation

* Mandarin
    (Pinyin): dàjīngxiǎoguài
    (Zhuyin): ㄉㄚˋ ㄐㄧㄥ ㄒㄧㄠˇ ㄍㄨㄞˋ
* Cantonese (Jyutping): daai$^6$ ging$^1$ siu$^2$ gwaai$^3$ / daai$^6$ geng$^1$ siu$^2$ gwaai$^3$
* Southern Min
    (Hokkien, POJ): tōa-kiaⁿ-sió-koài
    (Teochew, Peng'im): dua$^7$ gian$^1$ siou$^2$ guai$^3$
* Wu (Shanghai, Wugniu): $^6$du-cin-shiau-kua
* Mandarin
** (Standard Chinese)
*** Hanyu Pinyin: dàjīngxiǎoguài
*** Zhuyin: ㄉㄚˋ ㄐㄧㄥ ㄒㄧㄠˇ ㄍㄨㄞˋ
*** Tongyong Pinyin: dàjingsiǎoguài
*** Wade–Giles: ta$^4$-ching$^1$-hsiao$^3$-kuai$^4$
*** Yale: dà-jīng-syǎu-gwài
*** Gwoyeu Romatzyh: dahjingsheauguay
*** Palladius: дацзинсяогуай (daczinsjaoguaj)
*** Sinological IPA : /tä⁵¹ t͡ɕiŋ⁵⁵ ɕi̯ɑʊ̯²¹⁴⁻²¹ ku̯aɪ̯⁵¹/
* Cantonese
** (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
*** Jyutping: daai$^6$ ging$^1$ siu$^2$ gwaai$^3$ / daai$^6$ geng$^1$ siu$^2$ gwaai$^3$
*** Yale: daaih gīng síu gwaai / daaih gēng síu gwaai
*** Cantonese Pinyin: daai$^6$ ging$^1$ siu$^2$ gwaai$^3$ / daai$^6$ geng$^1$ siu$^2$ gwaai$^3$
*** Guangdong Romanization: dai$^6$ ging$^1$ xiu$^2$ guai$^3$ / dai$^6$ géng$^1$ xiu$^2$ guai$^3$
*** Sinological IPA : /taːi̯²² kɪŋ⁵⁵ siːu̯³⁵ kʷaːi̯³³/, /taːi̯²² kɛːŋ⁵⁵ siːu̯³⁵ kʷaːi̯³³/
* Southern Min
** (Hokkien)
*** Pe̍h-ōe-jī: tōa-kiaⁿ-sió-koài
*** Tâi-lô: tuā-kiann-sió-kuài
*** Phofsit Daibuun: doaxkviasioy'koaix
*** IPA (Xiamen): /tua²²⁻²¹ kiã⁴⁴⁻²² sio⁵³⁻⁴⁴ kuai²¹/
*** IPA (Quanzhou): /tua⁴¹⁻²² kiã³³ sio⁵⁵⁴⁻²⁴ kuai⁴¹/
*** IPA (Zhangzhou): /tua²²⁻²¹ kiã⁴⁴⁻²² sio⁵³⁻⁴⁴ kuai²¹/
*** IPA (Taipei): /tua³³⁻¹¹ kiã⁴⁴⁻³³ sio⁵³⁻⁴⁴ kuai¹¹/
*** IPA (Kaohsiung): /tua³³⁻²¹ kiã⁴⁴⁻³³ siɤ⁴¹⁻⁴⁴ kuai²¹/
** (Teochew)
*** Peng'im: dua$^7$ gian$^1$ siou$^2$ guai$^3$
*** Pe̍h-ōe-jī-like: tuā kiaⁿ sióu kuài
*** Sinological IPA : /tua¹¹ kĩã³³⁻²³ siou⁵²⁻³⁵ kuai²¹³/
* Wu
** (Northern: Shanghai)
*** Wugniu: $^6$du-cin-shiau-kua
*** MiniDict: du$^去$ cin shiau kua
*** Wiktionary Romanisation (Shanghai): $^3$du-jin-xiau-kua
*** Sinological IPA (Shanghai): /du²² t͡ɕin⁵⁵ ɕiɔ³³ kua²¹/

### Idiom

大驚小怪
* to make a fuss over a trivial matter; much ado about nothing
       Shénme shìr zhème dàjīngxiǎoguài? [Pinyin]
       Why so much fuss?
       Wǒ bìng bù shì dàjīngxiǎoguài de rén, dàn nà běn shū yínhuì zhī shèn quèshí ràng wǒ dàchīyījīng. [Pinyin]
       I'm not easily shocked, but that book really is obscene.
       Tā dàjīngxiǎoguài de duì tā shuō. [Pinyin]
       He spoke to her fussily.
    From: 1957, 毛澤東 (Mao Zedong), 《關於正確處理人民內部矛盾的問題》 (On the Correct Handling of Contradictions Among the People), 《毛澤東選集》. English translation based on the Foreign Languages Press edition
    Zài wǒmen zhèyàng dà de guójiā lǐ, yǒu shǎoshù rén nàoshì, bìngbù zhídé dàjīngxiǎoguài, dàoshì zúyǐ bāngzhù wǒmen kèfú guānliáozhǔyì. [Pinyin]
    In a large country like ours, there is nothing to get alarmed about if small numbers of people create disturbances; on the contrary, such disturbances will help us get rid of bureaucracy.