大夫
See also: 丈夫
Chinese
[edit]big; great; huge big; great; huge; large; major; wide; deep; oldest; eldest; doctor |
husband; man | ||
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simp. and trad. (大夫) |
大 | 夫 |
Pronunciation 1
[edit]- Mandarin
- Cantonese (Jyutping): daai6 fu1
- Jin (Wiktionary): dai3 fu2
- Southern Min
- Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese)+
- Hanyu Pinyin:
- Zhuyin: ㄉㄞˋ ˙ㄈㄨ
- Tongyong Pinyin: dàifů
- Wade–Giles: tai4-fu5
- Yale: dài-fu
- Gwoyeu Romatzyh: day.fu
- Palladius: дайфу (dajfu)
- Sinological IPA (key): /taɪ̯⁵¹ fu¹/
- (Dungan)
- Cyrillic and Wiktionary: дэфу (defu, III-I)
- Sinological IPA (key): /tɛ⁴⁴ fou²⁴/
- (Note: Dungan pronunciation is currently experimental and may be inaccurate.)
- (Standard Chinese)+
- Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)+
- Jyutping: daai6 fu1
- Yale: daaih fū
- Cantonese Pinyin: daai6 fu1
- Guangdong Romanization: dai6 fu1
- Sinological IPA (key): /taːi̯²² fuː⁵⁵/
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)+
- Jin
- (Taiyuan)+
- Wiktionary: dai3 fu2
- Sinological IPA (old-style): /tai⁴⁵ fu⁵³/
- (Taiyuan)+
- Southern Min
Noun
[edit]大夫
- (colloquial) (medical) doctor
Synonyms
[edit]Derived terms
[edit]Pronunciation 2
[edit]- Mandarin
- Cantonese (Jyutping): daai6 fu1
- Hakka (Sixian, PFS): thai-fû
- Southern Min (Hokkien, POJ): tāi-hu
- Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese)+
- Hanyu Pinyin:
- Zhuyin: ㄉㄚˋ ㄈㄨ
- Tongyong Pinyin: dàfu
- Wade–Giles: ta4-fu1
- Yale: dà-fū
- Gwoyeu Romatzyh: dahfu
- Palladius: дафу (dafu)
- Sinological IPA (key): /tä⁵¹ fu⁵⁵/
- (Standard Chinese)+
- Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)+
- Jyutping: daai6 fu1
- Yale: daaih fū
- Cantonese Pinyin: daai6 fu1
- Guangdong Romanization: dai6 fu1
- Sinological IPA (key): /taːi̯²² fuː⁵⁵/
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)+
- Hakka
- (Sixian, incl. Miaoli and Neipu)
- Pha̍k-fa-sṳ: thai-fû
- Hakka Romanization System: tai fuˊ
- Hagfa Pinyim: tai4 fu1
- Sinological IPA: /tʰai̯⁵⁵ fu²⁴/
- (Sixian, incl. Miaoli and Neipu)
- Southern Min
Noun
[edit]大夫
- (archaic, historical) A governmental job title used during the Spring and Autumn period, the Warring States period and the early Chinese dynasties, whose responsibilities encompassed managing royal and court affairs, often translated as "senior official", "high officer" or "great officer".
- 宜大夫庶士、邦國是有。既多受祉、黃髮兒齒。 [Pre-Classical Chinese, trad.]
- From: The Classic of Poetry, c. 11th – 7th centuries BCE, translated based on James Legge's version
- Yí dàfū shù shì, bāngguó shì yǒu. Jì duō shòu zhǐ, huángfà'érchǐ. [Pinyin]
- With his excellent ministers and all his [other] officers.
Our region and State shall he hold,
Thus receiving many blessings,
To hoary hair, and with teeth ever renewed like a child's.
宜大夫庶士、邦国是有。既多受祉、黄发儿齿。 [Pre-Classical Chinese, simp.]
- (Hailu Hakka) large, dry field
Synonyms
[edit]- (large, dry field): (Hakka) 大坵
Derived terms
[edit]Descendants
[edit]Proper noun
[edit]大夫
- a surname
Japanese
[edit]Etymology 1
[edit]Kanji in this term | |
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大 | 夫 |
たい Grade: 1 |
ふ Grade: 4 |
on'yomi |
from Chinese 大夫 (“great man”). Also written as 太夫.
Noun
[edit]- (historical) an office in Zhou Dynasty, China.
- (historical, in Japan) substitutive style of high ranked courtier, particularly officers in the 5th rank (五位).
- (historical, in Japan, also daibu) head of shoku(職) or bō(坊), administrative departments of the imperial court.
- (historical) karō (家老)
- pine tree (based in an episode Qin Shi Huangdi or the First Emperor of Qin granted a pine tree the dignity of Taifu [1.])
- style of Shinto shrine headmaster.
Etymology 2
[edit]Kanji in this term | |
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大 | 夫 |
たい > たゆ Grade: 1 |
ふ > う Grade: 4 |
on'yomi |
from taifu (see above)
/taiɸu/ → /taiu/ → /tajuː/
Noun
[edit]- (in Noh-theater) iemoto or the head master of shite (シテ) acting family.
- (in jōruri/bunraku-theater) style of narrators and shamisen players.
- (historical, in Edo period) highest ranked prostitutes at the officially approved prostitution areas, such as, Yoshiwara.
- leading actor in a manzai pair
- style of Shinto shrine headmaster
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