大津
Chinese
big; great; huge big; great; huge; large; major; wide; deep; oldest; eldest; doctor |
Tianjin; ferry | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| simp. and trad. (大津) |
大 | 津 | |
Etymology
Orthographic borrowing from Japanese 大津 (Ōtsu).
Pronunciation
- Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese)+
- Hanyu Pinyin: Dàjīn
- Zhuyin: ㄉㄚˋ ㄐㄧㄣ
- Tongyong Pinyin: Dàjin
- Wade–Giles: Ta4-chin1
- Yale: Dà-jīn
- Gwoyeu Romatzyh: Dahjin
- Palladius: Дацзинь (Daczinʹ)
- Sinological IPA (key): /tä⁵¹ t͡ɕin⁵⁵/
- (Standard Chinese)+
- Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)+
- Jyutping: daai6 zeon1
- Yale: daaih jēun
- Cantonese Pinyin: daai6 dzoen1
- Guangdong Romanization: dai6 zên1
- Sinological IPA (key): /taːi̯²² t͡sɵn⁵⁵/
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)+
Proper noun
大津
Japanese
| Kanji in this term | |
|---|---|
| 大 | 津 |
| おお Grade: 1 |
つ Grade: S |
| kun'yomi | |
Etymology
Compound of 大 (ō, “big, large”) + 津 (tsu, “harbor, port”).[1]
Pronunciation
Noun
- a large port or harbor
- a type of mud used as an overcoat for an earthen or mud wall, named for the town of Ōtsu where it was produced
- short for 大津馬 (Ōtsu uma), a stage horse from the town of Ōtsu
Proper noun
- Ōtsu (the capital city of Shiga Prefecture), an important port on Lake Biwa
- the name of various other places in Japan
- a surname
References
- ^ Shōgaku Tosho (1988) 国語大辞典（新装版） [Unabridged Dictionary of Japanese (Revised Edition)] (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Shogakukan, →ISBN
- ^ NHK Broadcasting Culture Research Institute, editor (1998), NHK日本語発音アクセント辞典 [NHK Japanese Pronunciation Accent Dictionary] (in Japanese), Tokyo: NHK Publishing, Inc., →ISBN