大空

Chinese

Etymology 1

		big; great; huge big; great; huge; large; major; wide; deep; oldest; eldest; doctor	emptied; leisure; air emptied; leisure; air; sky; empty; in vain
trad. (大空)		大	空
simp. #(大空)		大	空
alternative forms		大孔 大康 adjective

Pronunciation

• Min Nan (Hokkien, POJ): tōa-khang

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• Min Nan
  • (Hokkien: Xiamen, Quanzhou, Zhangzhou, General Taiwanese)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: tōa-khang
    • Tâi-lô: tuā-khang
    • Phofsit Daibuun: doaxqafng
    • IPA (Xiamen, Zhangzhou): /tua²²⁻²¹ kʰaŋ⁴⁴/
    • IPA (Kaohsiung): /tua³³⁻²¹ kʰaŋ⁴⁴/
    • IPA (Taipei): /tua³³⁻¹¹ kʰaŋ⁴⁴/
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /tua⁴¹⁻²² kʰaŋ³³/

Noun

大空

1. (Hokkien) big hole

Verb

大空

1. (Hokkien) to have a big problem arise; to have a slip-up
2. (Hokkien) to talk unrestrainedly (about something)

Synonyms

• (to talk unrestrainedly): 大話／大话 (dàhuà)

Derived terms

• 大空話／大空话

 

Adjective

大空

1. (Hokkien) lavish; generous; bounteous; prodigal
   • 1936, 新編掍𫔘掍歌 上本‎^[1], Chiayi: 捷發漢書部:

     宣石手指上皿送　阿君開錢上大空 [Taiwanese Hokkien, trad.]
     宣石手指上皿送　阿君开钱上大空 [Taiwanese Hokkien, simp.]

     soān-chio̍h chhiú-chí siōng phiat-sàng, a-kun khai-chîⁿ siōng tōa-khang [Pe̍h-ōe-jī]

     Diamond rings are the most fashionable, sir, you are the most generous in your spending

Synonyms

• 闊綽／阔绰 (kuòchuò)
• 闊氣／阔气 (kuòqì)

Etymology 2

Orthographic borrowing from Japanese 大空(おおぞら) (Ōzora).

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): Dàkōng

  (Zhuyin): ㄉㄚˋ ㄎㄨㄥ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): daai⁶ hung¹

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: Dàkōng
    • Zhuyin: ㄉㄚˋ ㄎㄨㄥ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: Dàkong
    • Wade–Giles: Ta⁴-kʻung¹
    • Yale: Dà-kūng
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: Dahkong
    • Palladius: Дакун (Dakun)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /tä⁵¹ kʰʊŋ⁵⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
    • Jyutping: daai⁶ hung¹
    • Yale: daaih hūng
    • Cantonese Pinyin: daai⁶ hung¹
    • Guangdong Romanization: dai⁶ hung¹
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /taːi̯²² hʊŋ⁵⁵/

Proper noun

大空

1. (～町) Ōzora (a town in Hokkaido prefecture, Japan)

Japanese

Kanji in this term
大	空
おお Grade: 1	そら > ぞら Grade: 1
kun’yomi

Etymology

大 (ō, “large”) +‎ 空 (sora, “sky”)

Pronunciation

• (Tokyo) おおぞ​ら [òózóꜜrà] (Nakadaka – [3])
• IPA^(key): [o̞ːzo̞ɾa̠]

Noun

大(おお)空(ぞら) • (ōzora) ^{←おほぞら (ofozora)?}

1. firmament; heavens; sky
   • 2004 March 10, Kozue Amano, “[Navigation](ナビゲーション)[18](じゅうはち) [空](そら)を[泳](およ)ぐ[魚](さかな)”, in ARIA(アリア), volume 4 (fiction), Tokyo: Mag Garden, →ISBN, page 106:

     その日(ひ)　私(わたし)が出会(であ)った風追配達人(シルフ)さんは　ちょっぴりドジで　だけど子(こ)供(ども)のように無(む)邪(じゃ)気(き)に笑(わら)う　大(おお)空(ぞら)に生(い)きるまっすぐな素(す)敵(てき)マンなのでした

     Sono hi watashi ga deatta Shirufu-san wa choppiri doji de dakedo kodomo no yō ni mujaki ni warau ōzora ni ikiru massugu na suteki man nano deshita

     That day, I met a Sylph who was a bit of an airhead, but who had innocent childlike laughs, and he was a lovely fella who lived in the sky

Synonyms

• 穹蒼

See also

• Appendix:Gikun_Usage_in_Meiji_Version_of_Japanese_Bible/穹蒼