大東

Chinese

		big; great; huge big; great; huge; large; major; wide; deep; oldest; eldest; doctor	east
trad. (大東)		大	東
simp. (大东)		大	东
anagram		東大／东大

Etymology

"Daitō"

Orthographic borrowing from Japanese 大東 (Daitō).

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): Dàdōng

  (Zhuyin): ㄉㄚˋ ㄉㄨㄥ

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: Dàdōng
    • Zhuyin: ㄉㄚˋ ㄉㄨㄥ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: Dàdong
    • Wade–Giles: Ta⁴-tung¹
    • Yale: Dà-dūng
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: Dahdong
    • Palladius: Дадун (Dadun)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /tä⁵¹ tʊŋ⁵⁵/

Proper noun

大東

1. (～村) Dadong (a village in Zhashan, Caidian district, Wuhan, Hubei, China)
2. (～市) Daitō (a city in Ōsaka prefecture, Japan)
3. (Korean Classical Chinese, honorific) Korea; Great Korea

   • 惟我大東，自箕子設敎之後，世遠經殘，君子而不得聞大道之要，小人而不得蒙至治之澤者久矣。 [Korean Literary Sinitic, trad.]

     From: 《朝鮮王朝實錄》 (Journal of the Royal Secretariat), 1436

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