大洗

Chinese

Etymology 1

		big; great; huge big; great; huge; large; major; wide; deep; oldest; eldest; doctor	to wash; to bathe
simp. and trad. (大洗)		大	洗

Orthographic borrowing from Japanese 大(おお)洗(あらい) (Ōarai).

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): Dàxǐ

  (Zhuyin): ㄉㄚˋ ㄒㄧˇ

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: Dàxǐ
    • Zhuyin: ㄉㄚˋ ㄒㄧˇ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: Dàsǐ
    • Wade–Giles: Ta⁴-hsi³
    • Yale: Dà-syǐ
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: Dahshii
    • Palladius: Даси (Dasi)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /tä⁵¹ ɕi²¹⁴⁻²¹⁽⁴⁾/

Proper noun

大洗

1. (～町) Ōarai (a town in Ibaraki Prefecture, Japan)

Etymology 2

		big; great; huge big; great; huge; large; major; wide; deep; oldest; eldest; doctor	to wash; to bathe
simp. and trad. (大洗)		大	洗

Pronunciation

• Cantonese (Jyutping): daai⁶ sai²

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• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
    • Jyutping: daai⁶ sai²
    • Yale: daaih sái
    • Cantonese Pinyin: daai⁶ sai²
    • Guangdong Romanization: dai⁶ sei²
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /taːi̯²² sɐi̯³⁵/

Adjective

大洗

1. (Cantonese) Alternative form of 大使 (“lavish; extravagant; profuse; wasteful”)

Verb

大洗

1. (Cantonese) Alternative form of 大使 (“to spend money lavishly; to spend uncontrollably”)

Japanese

Kanji in this term
大	洗
おお Grade: 1	あら(い) Grade: 6
kun’yomi

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [o̞ːa̠ɾa̠i]

Proper noun

大(おお)洗(あらい) • (Ōarai) 

1. 大洗町: Ōarai (a town in Ibaraki Prefecture, Japan)