大事
Chinese
big; great; huge big; great; huge; large; major; wide; deep; oldest; eldest; doctor |
matter; thing; item matter; thing; item; work; affair | ||
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simp. and trad. (大事) |
大 | 事 | |
anagram | 事大 |
Pronunciation
- Mandarin
- Cantonese (Jyutping): daai6 si6
- Hakka (Sixian, PFS): thai-sṳ
- Southern Min (Hokkien, POJ): tāi-sū
- Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese)
- Hanyu Pinyin:
- Zhuyin: ㄉㄚˋ ㄕˋ
- Tongyong Pinyin: dàshìh
- Wade–Giles: ta4-shih4
- Yale: dà-shr̀
- Gwoyeu Romatzyh: dahshyh
- Palladius: даши (daši)
- Sinological IPA (key): /tä⁵¹⁻⁵³ ʂʐ̩⁵¹/
- Homophones:
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大勢/大势
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- (Standard Chinese)
- Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)+
- Jyutping: daai6 si6
- Yale: daaih sih
- Cantonese Pinyin: daai6 si6
- Guangdong Romanization: dai6 xi6
- Sinological IPA (key): /taːi̯²² siː²²/
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)+
- Hakka
- (Sixian, incl. Miaoli and Meinong)
- Pha̍k-fa-sṳ: thai-sṳ
- Hakka Romanization System: tai sii
- Hagfa Pinyim: tai4 si4
- Sinological IPA: /tʰai̯⁵⁵ sɨ⁵⁵/
- (Sixian, incl. Miaoli and Meinong)
- Southern Min
Noun
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Derived terms
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Japanese
Etymology 1
Kanji in this term | |
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大 | 事 |
だい Grade: 1 |
じ Grade: 3 |
on'yomi |
Adjectival noun
大事 • (daiji) -na (adnominal 大事な (daiji na), adverbial 大事に (daiji ni))
- important
- (archaic) difficult, highly troubling
- (archaic) seriously ill or injured; grave
- 10th century, Ochikubo Monogatari:
- いと大事にはあらねど、起き臥しなやみ給ふを
- Ito daiji niwa aranedo, oki fushi nayami tamau o
- Although it wasn't the gravest [illness / situation], [he / she] truly suffered fitful nights and days unable to sleep.
- いと大事にはあらねど、起き臥しなやみ給ふを
- 13th century, Koun Ejō, 正法眼蔵随聞記 巻六:
- 或時、尻に腫物を出す。医師、是を見て、大事の物也、と云。恵云く、大事の物ならば、死すべしや。医云く、ほとんどあやうかるべし。
- Aru toki, shiri ni haremono o dasu. Ishi, kore o mite, daiji no mono nari, to iu. Kei iwaku, daiji no mono naraba, shisu beshi ya. I iwaku, hotondo ayōkaru beshi.
- One day, he got a swelling on the buttocks. The doctor saw it and said it was grave. "If it is grave, then would I die [soon]?" Kei asked. The doctor said, "Close to [life-]threatening."
- 或時、尻に腫物を出す。医師、是を見て、大事の物也、と云。恵云く、大事の物ならば、死すべしや。医云く、ほとんどあやうかるべし。
Inflection
Inflection of 大事
Stem forms | |||
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Imperfective (未然形) | 大事だろ | だいじだろ | daiji daro |
Continuative (連用形) | 大事で | だいじで | daiji de |
Terminal (終止形) | 大事だ | だいじだ | daiji da |
Attributive (連体形) | 大事な | だいじな | daiji na |
Hypothetical (仮定形) | 大事なら | だいじなら | daiji nara |
Imperative (命令形) | 大事であれ | だいじであれ | daiji de are |
Key constructions | |||
Informal negative | 大事ではない 大事じゃない |
だいじではない だいじじゃない |
daiji de wa nai daiji ja nai |
Informal past | 大事だった | だいじだった | daiji datta |
Informal negative past | 大事ではなかった 大事じゃなかった |
だいじではなかった だいじじゃなかった |
daiji de wa nakatta daiji ja nakatta |
Formal | 大事です | だいじです | daiji desu |
Formal negative | 大事ではありません 大事じゃありません |
だいじではありません だいじじゃありません |
daiji de wa arimasen daiji ja arimasen |
Formal past | 大事でした | だいじでした | daiji deshita |
Formal negative past | 大事ではありませんでした 大事じゃありませんでした |
だいじではありませんでした だいじじゃありませんでした |
daiji de wa arimasen deshita daiji ja arimasen deshita |
Conjunctive | 大事で | だいじで | daiji de |
Conditional | 大事なら(ば) | だいじなら(ば) | daiji nara (ba) |
Provisional | 大事だったら | だいじだったら | daiji dattara |
Volitional | 大事だろう | だいじだろう | daiji darō |
Adverbial | 大事に | だいじに | daiji ni |
Degree | 大事さ | だいじさ | daijisa |
Synonyms
Noun
- An important thing; a serious matter; a valuable thing
- (colloquial) trouble
Derived terms
- 大事に至らない (daiji ni itaranai, “non-fatal, without heavy injury, no threat to life”)
- 大事無い (daijinai, “not worrisome”)
- 大事を取る (daiji o toru, “as a precaution, to be careful”)
- 大事の前の小事 (daiji no mae no shōji, “lose a fly to catch a trout”)
Etymology 2
Kanji in this term | |
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大 | 事 |
おお Grade: 1 |
こと > ごと Grade: 3 |
kun'yomi |
Noun
- a serious matter
References
- 2002, Ineko Kondō; Fumi Takano; Mary E Althaus; et. al., Shogakukan Progressive Japanese-English Dictionary, Third Edition, Tokyo: Shōgakukan, →ISBN.
Korean
Hanja in this term | |
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大 | 事 |
Noun
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