大錢

Chinese

		big; great; huge big; great; huge; large; major; wide; deep; oldest; eldest; doctor	coin; money
trad. (大錢)		大	錢
simp. (大钱)		大	钱

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): dàqián

  (Zhuyin): ㄉㄚˋ ㄑㄧㄢˊ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): daai⁶ cin^4-2
• Hakka (Sixian, PFS): thai-chhièn
• Southern Min (Hokkien, POJ): tōa-chîⁿ

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: dàqián
    • Zhuyin: ㄉㄚˋ ㄑㄧㄢˊ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: dàcián
    • Wade–Giles: ta⁴-chʻien²
    • Yale: dà-chyán
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: dahchyan
    • Palladius: дацянь (dacjanʹ)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /tä⁵¹ t͡ɕʰi̯ɛn³⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
    • Jyutping: daai⁶ cin^4-2
    • Yale: daaih chín
    • Cantonese Pinyin: daai⁶ tsin^4-2
    • Guangdong Romanization: dai⁶ qin^4-2
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /taːi̯²² t͡sʰiːn²¹⁻³⁵/
• Hakka
  • (Sixian, incl. Miaoli and Meinong)
    • Pha̍k-fa-sṳ: thai-chhièn
    • Hakka Romanization System: tai qienˇ
    • Hagfa Pinyim: tai⁴ qian²
    • Sinological IPA: /tʰai̯⁵⁵ t͡sʰi̯en¹¹/
• Southern Min
  • (Hokkien)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: tōa-chîⁿ
    • Tâi-lô: tuā-tsînn
    • Phofsit Daibuun: doaxcvii
    • IPA (Xiamen): /tua²²⁻²¹ t͡sĩ²⁴/
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /tua⁴¹⁻²² t͡sĩ²⁴/
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /tua²²⁻²¹ t͡sĩ¹³/
    • IPA (Taipei): /tua³³⁻¹¹ t͡sĩ²⁴/
    • IPA (Kaohsiung): /tua³³⁻²¹ t͡sĩ²³/

Noun

大錢

1. high denomination coin; high denomination currency; (in general) money

   • 無情的地主總是要從佃農身上取得東西，卻不肯花幾個大錢修理塘壩，讓塘乾旱，餓死佃農，他們卻只知收租。 [MSC, trad.]
     无情的地主总是要从佃农身上取得东西，却不肯花几个大钱修理塘坝，让塘干旱，饿死佃农，他们却只知收租。 [MSC, simp.]

     From: 1927, 毛澤東 (Mao Zedong), 《湖南農民運動考察報告》 (Report on an Investigation of the Peasant Movement in Hunan), 《毛澤東選集》. English translation based on the Foreign Languages Press edition

     Wúqíng de dìzhǔ zǒngshì yào cóng diànnóng shēnshàng qǔdé dōngxi, què bùkěn huā jǐge dàqián xiūlǐ tángbà, ràng táng gānhàn, èsǐ diànnóng, tāmen què zhǐ zhī shōuzū. [Pinyin]

     The ruthless landlords were always out to take what they could from the tenant-peasants and would never spend even a few coppers on embankment repairs; they would leave the ponds to dry up and the tenant-peasants to starve, caring about nothing but the rent.

2. large sum of money