大本

Chinese

		big; great; huge big; great; huge; large; major; wide; deep; oldest; eldest; doctor	roots or stems of plants; origin; source roots or stems of plants; origin; source; this; the current; root; foundation; basis; (a measure word)
simp. and trad. (大本)		大	本

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): dàběn

  (Zhuyin): ㄉㄚˋ ㄅㄣˇ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): daai⁶ bun²
• Southern Min (Hokkien, POJ): tōa-pún

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: dàběn
    • Zhuyin: ㄉㄚˋ ㄅㄣˇ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: dàběn
    • Wade–Giles: ta⁴-pên³
    • Yale: dà-běn
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: dahbeen
    • Palladius: дабэнь (dabɛnʹ)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /tä⁵¹ pən²¹⁴⁻²¹⁽⁴⁾/
      
  • (Standard Chinese, erhua-ed)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: dàběnr
    • Zhuyin: ㄉㄚˋ ㄅㄣˇㄦ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: dàběnr
    • Wade–Giles: ta⁴-pên³-ʼrh
    • Yale: dà-běnr
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: dahbeel
    • Palladius: дабэньр (dabɛnʹr)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /tä⁵¹ pəɻ²¹⁴⁻²¹⁽⁴⁾/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
    • Jyutping: daai⁶ bun²
    • Yale: daaih bún
    • Cantonese Pinyin: daai⁶ bun²
    • Guangdong Romanization: dai⁶ bun²
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /taːi̯²² puːn³⁵/
• Southern Min
  • (Hokkien)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: tōa-pún
    • Tâi-lô: tuā-pún
    • Phofsit Daibuun: doaxpuon
    • Sinological IPA (Xiamen): /tua²²⁻²¹ pun⁵³/
    • Sinological IPA (Quanzhou): /tua⁴¹⁻²² pun⁵⁵⁴/
    • Sinological IPA (Zhangzhou): /tua²²⁻²¹ pun⁵³/
    • Sinological IPA (Taipei): /tua³³⁻¹¹ pun⁵³/
    • Sinological IPA (Kaohsiung): /tua³³⁻²¹ pun⁴¹/

Noun

大本

1. (literary) foundation; basis
2. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see 大本 (dàběn); 大 (“big”) + 本 (“notebook”)
3. short for 大學本科／大学本科 (dàxué běnkē, “bachelor's degree at a university”)

Synonyms

• (foundation):

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• 來源 / 来源 (láiyuán)
• 出處 / 出处
• 基本 (jīběn)
• 本源 (běnyuán)
• 根 (gēn)
• 根子 (gēnzi)
• 根本 (gēnběn)
• 根源 (gēnyuán)
• 根頭 / 根头 (Xiamen Hokkien, Zhangzhou Hokkien)
• 泉源 (quányuán)
• 淵源 / 渊源 (yuānyuán)
• 源 (yuán) (literary, or in compounds)
• 源泉 (yuánquán) (figurative)
• 源頭 / 源头 (yuántóu) (figurative)
• 濫觴 / 滥觞 (lànshāng) (literary)
• 由來 / 由来 (yóulái)
• 起源 (qǐyuán)

Antonyms

• (antonym(s) of “bachelor's degree”): 大專／大专 (dàzhuān)

Derived terms

• 大本大宗
• 大本營 / 大本营 (dàběnyíng)

Japanese

Etymology 1

Kanji in this term
大	本
おお Grade: 1	もと Grade: 1
kun'yomi

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [o̞ːmo̞to̞]
• (Tokyo) おおもと [òómótó] (Heiban – [0])

Noun

大(おお)本(もと) • (ōmoto) 

1. foundation, basis

   Synonyms: ねっこ (nekko), 根源 (kongen), 根本 (konpon)

Proper noun

大(おお)本(もと) • (Ōmoto) 

1. a surname

Etymology 2

Kanji in this term
大	本
たい Grade: 1	ほん Grade: 1
on'yomi

From Chinese 大本 (dàběn). Attested from at least the 11th century.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ta̠ihõ̞ɴ]

Noun

大(たい)本(ほん) or 大本(だいほん) • (taihon or daihon) 

1. foundation, basis, basic fundamentals
   • 1892, Ozaki Kōyō, Futari Nyōbō:

     爰(ここ)が家(か)内(ない)の治(なお)る大(たい)本(ほん)とも謂(いい)つべく

     Koko ga kanai no naoru taihon to mo ī tsu beku

     Here is the basis on which my wife should be cured

Etymology 3

Kanji in this term
大	本
おお Grade: 1	ほん Grade: 1
kun'yomi	on'yomi

Of 大 (ō, “great, large”) +‎ 本 (hon, “book”). Attested from the Edo period.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [o̞ːhõ̞ɴ]

Noun

大(おお)本(ほん) • (ōhon) ^{←おほほん (ofofon)?}

1. (publishing, printing) folio (large book made from sheets of Mino washi paper folded in half)

See also

• 美(み)濃(の)紙(がみ) (Minogami, “Mino washi paper”)

References

• “大本”, in 漢字ぺディア [Kanjipedia]‎^[2] (in Japanese), The Japan Kanji Aptitude Testing Foundation, 2015–2026