paai1 tau4派頭派头
Jyutpingpaai1 tau4
Yalepāai tàuh
Definition
Grand style, luxury, or air of extravagance shown off to display one's taste or social status.
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How it's used
Focuses on the outward display of wealth, status, or grandeur, often implying a sense of extravagance. It is frequently used to describe someone who likes to make a big impression or ensure that an event feels prestigious and expensive. While it can be used neutrally to describe someone with a refined air, it often carries a slightly critical tone when suggesting someone is being showy or pretentious.
Examples
He shows a lot of style when he treats people to a meal.
Why do you need to make it look so fancy?
Related words
Common phrases
full of style and grandeur
to care about appearances and status
Common mistake
Avoid using this to describe someone's personal fashion sense or artistic style, as it specifically refers to the scale and impressiveness of an action or a social display rather than individual aesthetics.
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Grammar guides
- Directional complementsThe small words added after a verb to show direction of movement, like up, down, out, in, and back. Common in everyday Cantonese.
- DemonstrativesThis and that with 呢 and 嗰, the personal pronouns, and how 哋 turns I, you, and he into we, you all, and they.
- Resultative complementsSticking a result word onto a verb to show how it turned out, like eat until full or look and find. A productive everyday pattern.
