大抵

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Chinese

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big; great; huge
big; great; huge; large; major; wide; deep; oldest; eldest; doctor
 
hold up; on the whole; push against
hold up; on the whole; push against; to support; to resist; to reach; to arrive; mortgage
 
trad. (大抵)
simp. #(大抵)
alternative forms 大氐

Pronunciation

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Rime
Character
Reading # 1/2 2/2 1/1
Initial () (7) (7) (5)
Final () (25) (94) (39)
Tone (調) Departing (H) Departing (H) Rising (X)
Openness (開合) Open Open Open
Division () I I IV
Fanqie
Baxter dajH daH tejX
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang
/dɑiH/ /dɑH/ /teiX/
Pan
Wuyun
/dɑiH/ /dɑH/ /teiX/
Shao
Rongfen
/dɑiH/ /dɑH/ /tɛiX/
Edwin
Pulleyblank
/dajH/ /daH/ /tɛjX/
Li
Rong
/dɑiH/ /dɑH/ /teiX/
Wang
Li
/dɑiH/ /dɑH/ /tieiX/
Bernard
Karlgren
/dʱɑiH/ /dʱɑH/ /tieiX/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex
dài duò
Expected
Cantonese
Reflex
daai6 do6 dai2
BaxterSagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character
Reading # 1/2 2/2 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)
Middle
Chinese
‹ daH › ‹ dajH › ‹ tejX ›
Old
Chinese
/*lˁat-s/ (MC F!) /*lˁa[t]-s/ /*tˁijʔ/
English big big push away

Notes for Old Chinese notations in the Baxter–Sagart system:

* Parentheses "()" indicate uncertain presence;
* Square brackets "[]" indicate uncertain identity, e.g. *[t] as coda may in fact be *-t or *-p;
* Angle brackets "<>" indicate infix;
* Hyphen "-" indicates morpheme boundary;

* Period "." indicates syllable boundary.
Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character
Reading # 1/2 2/2 1/1
No. 1934 1939 2247
Phonetic
component
Rime
group
Rime
subdivision
1 1 1
Corresponding
MC rime
Old
Chinese
/*daːds/ /*daːds/ /*tiːlʔ/

Adverb

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大抵

  1. for the most part; on the whole
  2. basically; generally
  3. more or less; roughly; approximately

Synonyms

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  • (for the most part):
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  • (basically):
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  • (more or less):
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Descendants

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Sino-Xenic (大抵):
  • Japanese: 大抵(たいてい) (taitei)
  • Korean: 대저(大抵) (daejeo)

Japanese

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Kanji in this term
たい
Grade: 1
てい
Grade: S
on'yomi
For pronunciation and definitions of 大抵 – see the following entry.
たいてい
[adverb] generally, mostly, for the most part; usually, normally, as a rule, more often than not, most of the time, much (a great deal) of the time; more or less; nearly all, almost all; almost, nearly; probably
Alternative spelling
大底
(This term, 大抵, is an alternative spelling of the above term.)

Usage notes

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The term is mainly written in hiragana (たいてい) and the kanji spelling is rarely encountered.

Korean

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Hanja in this term

Noun

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大抵 (daejeo) (hangeul 대저)

  1. hanja form? of 대저 (generally)