木大

Chinese

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): mùdà

  (Zhuyin): ㄇㄨˋ ㄉㄚˋ

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: mùdà
    • Zhuyin: ㄇㄨˋ ㄉㄚˋ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: mùdà
    • Wade–Giles: mu⁴-ta⁴
    • Yale: mù-dà
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: muhdah
    • Palladius: муда (muda)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /mu⁵¹⁻⁵³ tä⁵¹/

Etymology 1

		tree; wood	big; great; huge big; great; huge; large; major; wide; deep; oldest; eldest; doctor
simp. and trad. (木大)		木	大
anagram		大木

Noun

木大

1. (archaic) a kind of character in Chinese opera featuring silly behaviors [Song and Yuan dynasties]

References

• “Entry #32800”, in 重編國語辭典修訂本 [Revised Mandarin Chinese Dictionary] (in Chinese), National Academy for Educational Research (Taiwan), 2021.

Etymology 2

		phonetic
simp. and trad. (木大)		木	大
anagram		大木

From Japanese 無駄(むだ) (muda). Popularized through the manga series JoJo's Bizarre Adventure.

Adjective

木大

1. (ACG or Internet slang) useless; in vain

   我們的努力全部木大。 [MSC, trad.]
   我们的努力全部木大。 [MSC, simp.]

   Wǒmen de nǔlì quánbù mùdà. [Pinyin]

   Our efforts were in vain.