大夫
Appearance
See also: 丈夫
Chinese
[edit]big; great; huge big; great; huge; large; major; wide; deep; oldest; eldest; doctor |
husband; man | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| simp. and trad. (大夫) |
大 | 夫 | |
Pronunciation 1
[edit]- Mandarin
- Cantonese (Jyutping): daai6 fu1
- Jin (Wiktionary): dai3 fu2
- Southern Min
- Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese)+
- Hanyu Pinyin: dàifu
- Zhuyin: ㄉㄞˋ ˙ㄈㄨ
- Tongyong Pinyin: dàifů
- Wade–Giles: tai4-fu5
- Yale: dài-fu
- Gwoyeu Romatzyh: day.fu
- Palladius: дайфу (dajfu)
- Sinological IPA (key): /taɪ̯⁵¹ fu¹/
- (Dungan)
- Cyrillic and Wiktionary: дэфу (defu, III-I)
- Sinological IPA (key): /tɛ⁴⁴ fou²⁴/
- (Note: Dungan pronunciation is currently experimental and may be inaccurate.)
- (Standard Chinese)+
- Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)+
- Jyutping: daai6 fu1
- Yale: daaih fū
- Cantonese Pinyin: daai6 fu1
- Guangdong Romanization: dai6 fu1
- Sinological IPA (key): /taːi̯²² fuː⁵⁵/
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)+
- Jin
- (Taiyuan)+
- Wiktionary: dai3 fu2
- Sinological IPA (old-style): /tai⁴⁵ fu⁵³/
- (Taiyuan)+
- Southern Min
Noun
[edit]大夫
- (colloquial) (medical) doctor
Synonyms
[edit]Derived terms
[edit]Pronunciation 2
[edit]- Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese)+
- Hanyu Pinyin: dàfū
- Zhuyin: ㄉㄚˋ ㄈㄨ
- Tongyong Pinyin: dàfu
- Wade–Giles: ta4-fu1
- Yale: dà-fū
- Gwoyeu Romatzyh: dahfu
- Palladius: дафу (dafu)
- Sinological IPA (key): /tä⁵¹ fu⁵⁵/
- (Standard Chinese)+
- Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)+
- Jyutping: daai6 fu1
- Yale: daaih fū
- Cantonese Pinyin: daai6 fu1
- Guangdong Romanization: dai6 fu1
- Sinological IPA (key): /taːi̯²² fuː⁵⁵/
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)+
- Hakka
- (Sixian, incl. Miaoli and Neipu)
- Pha̍k-fa-sṳ: thai-fû
- Hakka Romanization System: tai fuˊ
- Hagfa Pinyim: tai4 fu1
- Sinological IPA: /tʰai̯⁵⁵ fu²⁴/
- (Hailu, incl. Zhudong)
- Hakka Romanization System: tai˖ fuˋ
- Sinological IPA: /tʰai³³ fu⁵³/
- (Sixian, incl. Miaoli and Neipu)
- Southern Min
Noun
[edit]大夫
- (historical or archaic) grandee, official, minister (Zhou, Warring States, Qin, Han)
- 宜大夫庶士、邦國是有。既多受祉、黃髮兒齒。 [Pre-Classical Chinese, trad.]
- From: The Classic of Poetry, c. 11th – 7th centuries BCE, translated based on James Legge's version
- Yí dàfū shù shì, bāngguó shì yǒu. Jì duō shòu zhǐ, huángfà'érchǐ. [Pinyin]
- With his excellent ministers and all his [other] officers.
Our region and State shall he hold,
Thus receiving many blessings,
To hoary hair, and with teeth ever renewed like a child's.
宜大夫庶士、邦国是有。既多受祉、黄发儿齿。 [Pre-Classical Chinese, simp.]
- (Hailu Hakka) large, dry field
Synonyms
[edit]- (large, dry field): (Hakka) 大坵
Derived terms
[edit]Descendants
[edit]Proper noun
[edit]大夫
- a surname
Japanese
[edit]Etymology 1
[edit]| Kanji in this term | |
|---|---|
| 大 | 夫 |
| たい Grade: 1 |
ふ Grade: 4 |
| on'yomi | |
from Chinese 大夫 (“great man”). Also written as 太夫.
Noun
[edit]- (historical) an office in Zhou Dynasty, China.
- (historical, in Japan) substitutive style of high ranked courtier, particularly officers in the 5th rank (五位).
- (historical, in Japan, also daibu) head of shoku(職) or bō(坊), administrative departments of the imperial court.
- (historical) karō (家老)
- synonym of 松 (matsu, “pine tree”) (based in an episode Qin Shi Huangdi or the First Emperor of Qin granted a pine tree the dignity of Taifu [1.])
- style of Shinto shrine headmaster.
Etymology 2
[edit]| Kanji in this term | |
|---|---|
| 大 | 夫 |
| たい > たゆ Grade: 1 |
ふ > う Grade: 4 |
| on'yomi | |
from taifu (see above)
/taiɸu/ → /taiu/ → /tajuː/
Noun
[edit]- (in Noh-theater) iemoto or the head master of shite (仕手) acting family.
- (in jōruri/bunraku-theater) style of narrators and shamisen players.
- (historical, in Edo period) highest ranked prostitutes at the officially approved prostitution areas, such as, Yoshiwara.
- leading actor in a manzai pair
- style of Shinto shrine headmaster
References
[edit]- “大夫”, in 漢字ぺディア [Kanjipedia][1] (in Japanese), The Japan Kanji Aptitude Testing Foundation, 2015–2026
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