大空

Chinese

		big; great; huge big; great; huge; large; major; wide; deep; oldest; eldest; doctor	emptied; leisure; air emptied; leisure; air; sky; empty; in vain
simp. and trad. (大空)		大	空

Pronunciation

• Min Nan (POJ): tōa-khang

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• Min Nan
  • (Hokkien: Xiamen, Quanzhou, Zhangzhou)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: tōa-khang
    • Tâi-lô: tuā-khang
    • Phofsit Daibuun: doaxqafng
    • IPA (Xiamen, Zhangzhou): /tua²²⁻²¹ kʰaŋ⁴⁴/
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /tua⁴¹⁻²² kʰaŋ³³/

Noun

大空

1. (Min Nan) big hole

Verb

大空

1. (Min Nan) to have a big problem arise; to have a slip-up
2. (Min Nan) to talk unrestrainedly (about something)

Synonyms

• (to talk unrestrainedly): 大話／大话 (dàhuà)

Derived terms

• 大空話／大空话

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Japanese

Kanji in this term
大	空
おお Grade: 1	そら > ぞら Grade: 1
kun’yomi

Etymology

大 (ō, “large”) +‎ 空 (sora, “sky”)

Pronunciation

• Kun’yomi
  • (Tokyo) おおぞ​ら [òózóꜜrà] (Nakadaka – [3])
  • IPA^(key): [o̞ːzo̞ɾa̠]

Noun

大空 (hiragana おおぞら, rōmaji ōzora, historical hiragana おほぞら)

1. firmament; heavens; sky
   • 2004 March 10, Amano, Kozue, “Navigation18 空そらを泳およぐ魚さかな [Navigation18 A Fish That Swims in the Sky]”, in ARIAアリア [Aria], volume 4 (fiction), Tokyo: Mag Garden, →ISBN, page 106:

     その日 (ひ)　私 (わたし)が出 (で)会 (あ)った風追配達人 (シルフ)さんは　ちょっぴりドジで　だけど子 (こ)供 (ども)のように無 (む)邪 (じゃ)気 (き)に笑 (わら)う　大 (おお)空 (ぞら)に生 (い)きるまっすぐな素 (す)敵 (てき)マンなのでした

     Sono hi watashi ga deatta Shirufu-san wa choppiri doji de dakedo kodomo no yō ni mujaki ni warau ōzora ni ikiru massugu na suteki man nano deshita

     That day, I met a Sylph who was a bit of an airhead, but who had innocent childlike laughs, and he was a lovely fella who lived in the sky

Synonyms

• 穹蒼

See also

• Appendix:Gikun_Usage_in_Meiji_Version_of_Japanese_Bible/穹蒼