大老婆

Chinese

		big; great; huge big; great; huge; large; major; wide; deep; oldest; eldest; doctor	wife; waifu
trad. (大老婆)		大	老婆
simp. #(大老婆)		大	老婆

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): dàlǎopo

  (Zhuyin): ㄉㄚˋ ㄌㄠˇ ˙ㄆㄛ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): daai⁶ lou⁵ po⁴

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: dàlǎopo
    • Zhuyin: ㄉㄚˋ ㄌㄠˇ ˙ㄆㄛ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: dàlǎopo̊
    • Wade–Giles: ta⁴-lao³-pʻo⁵
    • Yale: dà-lǎu-pwo
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: dahlao.po
    • Palladius: далаопо (dalaopo)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /tä⁵¹ lɑʊ̯²¹⁴ pʰu̯ɔ⁴/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
    • Jyutping: daai⁶ lou⁵ po⁴
    • Yale: daaih lóuh pòh
    • Cantonese Pinyin: daai⁶ lou⁵ po⁴
    • Guangdong Romanization: dai⁶ lou⁵ po⁴
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /taːi̯²² lou̯¹³ pʰɔː²¹/

Noun

大老婆

1. official wife (as opposed to a concubine)

Synonyms

Dialectal synonyms of 大老婆 (“official wife; primary wife”) [map]

Variety	Location	Words edit
Formal (Written Standard Chinese)		正室, 正房, 正妻, 嫡妻
Mandarin	Beijing	大婆兒, 大娘們兒
	Taiwan	大老婆
	Yantai (Muping)	大婆子
	Luoyang	大婆兒, 大老婆
	Xi'an	大老婆
	Lanzhou	大老婆
	Chengdu	大老婆, 大婆子
	Liuzhou	大婆
	Xuzhou	大婆兒, 大婆子, 大老婆
	Nanjing	大老婆
	Singapore	大老婆
Cantonese	Guangzhou	大婆
	Hong Kong	大婆
	Dongguan	大婆
Gan	Nanchang	大老婆
Huizhou	Jixi	大老嫗
Jin	Xinzhou	大婆子
Eastern Min	Fuzhou	大婆
Southern Min	Xiamen	大某
	Quanzhou	大某
	Jinjiang	大某
	Zhangzhou	大某, 大姐
	Singapore (Hokkien)	大某
	Manila (Hokkien)	大某
	Leizhou	大娘
Southern Pinghua	Nanning (Tingzi)	大婆
Wu	Shanghai (Chongming)	大老官
	Suzhou	大老媽
	Hangzhou	大老婆
	Wenzhou	正娘

See also

• 小老婆 (xiǎolǎopo)