大四喜

Chinese

		big; great; huge big; great; huge; large; major; wide; deep; oldest; eldest; doctor	four	to be fond of; to like; to enjoy to be fond of; to like; to enjoy; to be happy; to feel pleased; happiness; delight; glad
simp. and trad. (大四喜)		大	四	喜
Literally: “the big four happinesses”.

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): dàsìxǐ

  (Zhuyin): ㄉㄚˋ ㄙˋ ㄒㄧˇ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): daai⁶ sei³ hei²
• Southern Min (Hokkien, POJ): tōa-sù-hí / tōa-sì-hí

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: dàsìxǐ
    • Zhuyin: ㄉㄚˋ ㄙˋ ㄒㄧˇ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: dàsìhsǐ
    • Wade–Giles: ta⁴-ssŭ⁴-hsi³
    • Yale: dà-sz̀-syǐ
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: dahsyhshii
    • Palladius: дасыси (dasysi)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /tä⁵¹⁻⁵³ sz̩⁵¹ ɕi²¹⁴⁻²¹⁽⁴⁾/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
    • Jyutping: daai⁶ sei³ hei²
    • Yale: daaih sei héi
    • Cantonese Pinyin: daai⁶ sei³ hei²
    • Guangdong Romanization: dai⁶ séi³ héi²
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /taːi̯²² sei̯³³ hei̯³⁵/
• Southern Min
  • (Hokkien: General Taiwanese)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: tōa-sù-hí
    • Tâi-lô: tuā-sù-hí
    • Phofsit Daibuun: doaxsuo'hie
    • IPA (Kaohsiung): /tua³³⁻²¹ su²¹⁻⁴¹ hi⁴¹/
    • IPA (Taipei): /tua³³⁻¹¹ su¹¹⁻⁵³ hi⁵³/
  • (Hokkien: Singapore)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: tōa-sì-hí
    • Tâi-lô: tuā-sì-hí
    • Phofsit Daibuun: doaxsie'hie
    • IPA (Singapore): /tua²²⁻²¹ si²¹⁻⁴² hi⁴²/

Noun

大四喜

1. (mahjong) a winning hand with melds of all four wind tiles

   • 紅中已成崁　啊大四喜暗槓 [Taiwanese Hokkien, trad.]
     红中已成崁　啊大四喜暗杠 [Taiwanese Hokkien, simp.]

     From: 2011, 蔡秋鳳, 問韓信

     âng-tiong í sêng khàm, ah tōa-sù-hí àm-kàng [Pe̍h-ōe-jī]

     (please add an English translation of this usage example)

Related terms

• 小四喜 (xiǎosìxǐ)

Descendants

• → Japanese: 大四喜 (dāsūshī)

Japanese

Kanji in this term
大	四	喜
だい Grade: 1	スー Grade: 1	シー Grade: 5
goon	irregular

Kanji in this term
大	四	喜
ダー Grade: 1	スー Grade: 1	シー Grade: 5
irregular

Etymology

Orthographic borrowing from Chinese 大四喜, derived from 大 (dai-, “big, great”) +‎ 四喜和 (sūshīhō, “win with melds of all four wind tiles”).

Also attested in some dictionaries as a direct borrowing from Mandarin 大四喜 (dàsìxǐ).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [da̠isɨᵝːɕiː]

Noun

大(だい)四(スー)喜(シー) or 大(ダー)四(スー)喜(シー) • (daisūshī or dāsūshī) 

1. (mahjong) a winning hand with triplets or quads of all four wind tiles, worth double 役満 (yakuman, “limit”)

   Antonym: 小四喜 (shōsūshī)