大洗

Chinese

Etymology 1

		big; great; huge big; great; huge; large; major; wide; deep; oldest; eldest; doctor	to wash; to bathe
simp. and trad. (大洗)		大	洗

Orthographic borrowing from Japanese 大(おお)洗(あらい) (Ōarai).

Pronunciation

Mandarin
(Pinyin): Dàxǐ

(Zhuyin): ㄉㄚˋ ㄒㄧˇ

Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese)⁺
  - Hanyu Pinyin: Dàxǐ
  - Zhuyin: ㄉㄚˋ ㄒㄧˇ
  - Tongyong Pinyin: Dàsǐ
  - Wade–Giles: Ta⁴-hsi³
  - Yale: Dà-syǐ
  - Gwoyeu Romatzyh: Dahshii
  - Palladius: Даси (Dasi)
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /tä⁵¹ ɕi²¹⁴⁻²¹⁽⁴⁾/

Proper noun

大洗

(～町) Ōarai (a town in Ibaraki Prefecture, Japan)

Etymology 2

		big; great; huge big; great; huge; large; major; wide; deep; oldest; eldest; doctor	to wash; to bathe
simp. and trad. (大洗)		大	洗

Pronunciation

Cantonese (Jyutping): daai⁶ sai²

Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
  - Jyutping: daai⁶ sai²
  - Yale: daaih sái
  - Cantonese Pinyin: daai⁶ sai²
  - Guangdong Romanization: dai⁶ sei²
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /taːi̯²² sɐi̯³⁵/

Adjective

大洗

(Cantonese) alternative form of 大使 (“lavish; extravagant; profuse; wasteful”)

Verb

大洗

(Cantonese) alternative form of 大使 (“to spend money lavishly; to spend uncontrollably”)

Japanese

Kanji in this term
大	洗
おお Grade: 1	あら(い) Grade: 6
kun'yomi

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): [o̞ːa̠ɾa̠i]

Proper noun

大(おお)洗(あらい) • (Ōarai)

大洗町: Ōarai (a town in Ibaraki Prefecture, Japan)