大城
Chinese edit
big; great; huge big; great; huge; large; major; wide; deep; oldest; eldest; doctor |
city walls; city; town | ||
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simp. and trad. (大城) |
大 | 城 | |
anagram | 城大 |
Pronunciation 1 edit
Proper noun edit
大城
- (~府) Phra Nakhon Si Ayutthaya (a province of Thailand)
- Phra Nakhon Si Ayutthaya (a city in Phra Nakhon Si Ayutthaya province, Thailand)
- (~王國) (historical) Ayutthaya Kingdom
- (~鄉) Dacheng (a rural township in Changhua County, Taiwan)
Synonyms edit
- (Ayutthaya): 阿瑜陀耶 (Āyútuóyē)
Pronunciation 2 edit
Proper noun edit
大城
Japanese edit
Kanji in this term | |
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大 | 城 |
おお Grade: 1 |
しろ Grade: 4 |
kun’yomi |
Etymology 1 edit
Literally "great fortress".
Pronunciation edit
Proper noun edit
- a surname
Etymology 2 edit
Appears to be a Baekje compound.[2] If so, from 鞬 (*k(j)ə-n, “big, great”) + サシ (*sasi, “fortress”).
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
References edit
- ^ “おおしろ[おほしろ] 【大城】”, in 日本国語大辞典 (Nihon Kokugo Daijiten, “Nihon Kokugo Daijiten”) [1] (in Japanese), 2nd edition, Tōkyō: Shogakukan, 2000, released online 2007, →ISBN, concise edition entry available here (Note: Dialectal meanings, etymological theories, pronunciation including modern, dialectal, and historical information, Jōdai Tokushu Kanazukai, historical dictionaries containing this word, and the kanji spellings in those dictionaries have been omitted.)
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 “コニサシ 【大城】”, in 日本国語大辞典 (Nihon Kokugo Daijiten, “Nihon Kokugo Daijiten”) [2] (in Japanese), 2nd edition, Tōkyō: Shogakukan, 2000, released online 2007, →ISBN, concise edition entry available here (Note: Dialectal meanings, etymological theories, pronunciation including modern, dialectal, and historical information, Jōdai Tokushu Kanazukai, historical dictionaries containing this word, and the kanji spellings in those dictionaries have been omitted.)