大黑天

See also: 大黒天

Chinese

Pronunciation

Rime
Character 大 大 黑 天
Reading # 1/2 2/2 1/1 1/1
Initial (聲) 定 (7) 定 (7) 曉 (32) 透 (6)
Final (韻) 泰 (25) 歌 (94) 德 (131) 先 (85)
Tone (調) Departing (H) Departing (H) Checked (Ø) Level (Ø)
Openness (開合) Open Open Open Open
Division (等) I I I IV
Fanqie 徒蓋切 唐佐切 呼北切 他前切
Baxter dajH daH xok then
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang 		/dɑiH/ /dɑH/ /hək̚/ /tʰen/
Pan
Wuyun 		/dɑiH/ /dɑH/ /hək̚/ /tʰen/
Shao
Rongfen 		/dɑiH/ /dɑH/ /xək̚/ /tʰɛn/
Edwin
Pulleyblank 		/dajH/ /daH/ /hək̚/ /tʰɛn/
Li
Rong 		/dɑiH/ /dɑH/ /xək̚/ /tʰen/
Wang
Li 		/dɑiH/ /dɑH/ /xək̚/ /tʰien/
Bernhard
Karlgren 		/dʱɑiH/ /dʱɑH/ /xək̚/ /tʰien/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex 		dài duò he tiān
Expected
Cantonese
Reflex 		daai6 do6 hak1 tin1

Etymology 1

great black deva
simp. and trad.
(大黑天) 		大 黑 天

Calque of Sanskrit महाकाल (mahākāla, literally “Great Time”). Compare Tibetan ནག་པོ་ཆེན་པོ (nag po chen po, literally “Great Black One”).

Proper noun

大黑天

  1. (Buddhism, Hinduism, Shinto) Mahakala
    Synonym: 濕婆 / 湿婆 (Shīpó)
Descendants
Sino-Xenic (大黑天):
  • → Japanese: 大黒天(だいこくてん) (Daikokuten)
  • → Korean: 대흑천(大黑天) (Daeheukcheon)
  • → Vietnamese: Đại Hắc Thiên (大黑天)

Etymology 2

big; great; huge
big; great; huge; large; major; wide; deep; oldest; eldest; doctor
 
 night; nightfall; Krishna
simp. and trad.
(大黑天) 		大 黑天

Noun

大黑天

  1. (colloquial, usually in negative imperative sentences) (such a) dark midnight
    Antonym: 大白天 (dàbáitiān)

Further reading

Japanese

Kanji in this term
大 黑 天
だい
Grade: 1 		こく
Jinmeiyō 		てん
Grade: 1
on'yomi
For pronunciation and definitions of 大黑天 – see the following entry.
【大黒天だいこくてん】
[proper noun] (Buddhism, Shinto) Daikokuten, Japanese name for the Buddhist god Mahākāla
(This term, 大黑天, is the kyūjitai of the above term.)

Korean

Hanja in this term
大黑天

Proper noun

大黑天 • (Daeheukcheon) (hangeul 대흑천)

  1. hanja form? of 대흑천 (“Mahakala”)

Vietnamese

chữ Hán Nôm in this term
大黑天

Proper noun

大黑天

  1. chữ Hán form of Đại Hắc Thiên (“Mahakala”)
This article is issued from Wiktionary. The text is available under Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 4.0 unless otherwise noted. Additional terms may apply for the media files.