大牌

dàpái
  1. strong card
  2. honor card (card games)
  3. very popular or successful person
  4. self-important

CEDICT

  1. (Singapore) building number
  2. (figurative) famous; famed
  3. (figurative) heavyweight; celebrity; big name
  4. building number
  5. famous; famed
  6. heavyweight; celebrity; big name

Wiktionary

  1. 在某一行業中，擁有傑出的成就或名望。
  2. 為人非常驕傲、自滿。
  3. 玩撲克牌時，與其他各副牌組相較，占有絕大優勝的牌，稱為「大牌」。

重編國語辭典

Entry Composition

1 大 dà
  1. big; large; great
  2. older (than another person)
  3. eldest (as in 大姐 dàjiě)
  4. greatly; freely; fully
  5. (dialect) father
  6. (dialect) uncle (father's brother)
2 牌 pái (bound form) fixed pattern for lyrics or set melody in classical poetry or music (used in 詞牌 cípái and 曲牌 qǔpái)

classifiers: 塊, 個, 張

Containing this entry

大牌檔 dàpáidàng food stall; open-air restaurant (original Hong Kong written form, now usually written as 大排檔 dàpáidàng)

Related entries

臭屁 chòupì
  1. (coll.) self-important
  2. puffed up
拿大 nádà
  1. to put on airs
  2. self-important
  3. high and mighty
你可以拿大的盒子或是小的盒子。

You may take either the big box or the small one.

Source: Tatoeba

自命不凡 zìmìngbùfán
  1. to think too much of oneself
  2. self-important
  3. arrogant
尼采认为，哲学家应该少一点自命不凡，多关注人的价值问题，而不是抽象的体系。

Nietzsche believes philosophers should stop riding their high horse and focus more on people's differences in values, instead of abstract systems.

Source: Tatoeba