大風

See also: 大风

Chinese

big; great; huge
big; great; huge; large; major; wide; deep; oldest; eldest; doctor
 
wind; news; style
wind; news; style; custom; manner
 
trad. (大風)
simp. (大风)

Pronunciation


Note: Youyang - typhoon.

Noun

大風

  1. windstorm; strong winds
  2. (Mainland China, Taiwan, meteorology) gale (number 8 wind on the Beaufort scale)
  3. (dialectal) typhoon
  4. (literary) leprosy

Synonyms

Descendants

Sino-Xenic (台風 (táifēng)):
  • Japanese: 台風(たいふう) (Taifū)
  • ? Classical Syriac: ܛܘܦܢܐ (see there for further descendants)
  • ? Dutch: taifoen, tyfoon (see its etymology section for more)
  • ? English: tyfoong
  • Indonesian: taifun
  • Thai: ไต้ฝุ่น (dtâi-fùn)
  • Adjective

    大風

    1. (Cantonese) very windy
      出便大風 [Cantonese, trad.]
      出便大风 [Cantonese, simp.]
      ceot1 bin6 hou2 daai6 fung1. [Jyutping]
      It's very windy outside.

    References

    • 李如龙 [Li, Ru-long], 刘福铸 [Liu, Fu-zhu], 吴华英 [Wu, Hua-ying], 黄国城 [Huang, Guo-cheng] (2019) “15 台风”, in 莆仙方言调查报告 [Investigation Report on Puxian Dialect] (overall work in Mandarin and Puxian Min), Xiamen University Press, →ISBN, page 292.