大佛

Chinese

		big; great; huge big; great; huge; large; major; wide; deep; oldest; eldest; doctor	Buddha; Buddhism
simp. and trad. (大佛)		大	佛

Pronunciation

Mandarin
(Standard)
(Pinyin): dàfó

(Zhuyin): ㄉㄚˋ ㄈㄛˊ

(Chengdu, Sichuanese Pinyin): da⁴ fu²
Cantonese (Jyutping): daai⁶ fat⁶

Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese)⁺
  - Hanyu Pinyin: dàfó
  - Zhuyin: ㄉㄚˋ ㄈㄛˊ
  - Tongyong Pinyin: dàfó
  - Wade–Giles: ta⁴-fo²
  - Yale: dà-fwó
  - Gwoyeu Romatzyh: dahfor
  - Palladius: дафо (dafo)
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /tä⁵¹ fu̯ɔ³⁵/
- (Chengdu)
  - Sichuanese Pinyin: da⁴ fu²
  - Scuanxua Ladinxua Xin Wenz: dafu
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /ta²¹³ fu²¹/
Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
  - Jyutping: daai⁶ fat⁶
  - Yale: daaih faht
  - Cantonese Pinyin: daai⁶ fat⁹
  - Guangdong Romanization: dai⁶ fed⁶
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /taːi̯²² fɐt̚²/

Noun

大佛

a giant Buddha, statue or image

Derived terms

樂山大佛 / 乐山大佛 (Lèshān Dàfó)

Descendants

Sino-Xenic (大佛):

→ Japanese: 大仏(だいぶつ) (daibutsu)
→ Korean: 대불(大佛) (daebul)
→ Vietnamese: đại Phật (大佛)

Japanese

Kanji in this term
大	佛
だい Grade: 1	ぶつ Jinmeiyō
on'yomi

Kanji in this term
大	佛
お Grade: 1	さらぎ Jinmeiyō
nanori

For pronunciation and definitions of 大佛 – see the following entry.

【大仏だいぶつ】	[noun] great statue of Buddha
【大仏おさらぎ】	[proper noun] a surname

(This term, 大佛, is the kyūjitai of the above term.)