大抵

Chinese

		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)		大	抵
simp. #(大抵)		大	抵

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): dàdǐ

  (Zhuyin): ㄉㄚˋ ㄉㄧˇ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): daai⁶ dai²
• Southern Min (Hokkien, POJ): tāi-tí

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: dàdǐ
    • Zhuyin: ㄉㄚˋ ㄉㄧˇ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: dàdǐ
    • Wade–Giles: ta⁴-ti³
    • Yale: dà-dǐ
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: dahdii
    • Palladius: дади (dadi)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /tä⁵¹ ti²¹⁴⁻²¹⁽⁴⁾/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
    • Jyutping: daai⁶ dai²
    • Yale: daaih dái
    • Cantonese Pinyin: daai⁶ dai²
    • Guangdong Romanization: dai⁶ dei²
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /taːi̯²² tɐi̯³⁵/
• Southern Min
  • (Hokkien)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: tāi-tí
    • Tâi-lô: tāi-tí
    • Phofsit Daibuun: daixdie
    • IPA (Xiamen): /tai²²⁻²¹ ti⁵³/
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /tai⁴¹⁻²² ti⁵⁵⁴/
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /tai²²⁻²¹ ti⁵³/
    • IPA (Taipei): /tai³³⁻¹¹ ti⁵³/
    • IPA (Kaohsiung): /tai³³⁻²¹ ti⁴¹/

Adverb

(deprecated template usage) 大抵

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

Synonyms

• (for the most part): 大多 (dàduō), 大都 (dàdū)
• (more or less): 大概 (dàgài), 大約／大约 (dàyuē), 大致 (dàzhì), 光景 (guāngjǐng), 約略／约略 (yuēlüè), 約摸／约摸 (yuēmo), 左右 (zuǒyòu)

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Japanese

Kanji in this term
大	抵
たい Grade: 1	てい Grade: S
on’yomi

Adverb

大(たい)抵(てい) or 大抵(adverb) • (taitei or adverb) [[Category:Japanese
|たいてい]]

1. mostly, probably

Usage notes

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