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
trad. (大空)		大	空
simp. #(大空)		大	空

Pronunciation

• Southern Min (Hokkien, POJ): tōa-khang

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• Southern Min
  • (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

(deprecated template usage) 大空

1. (Southern Min) big hole

Verb

大空

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

Synonyms

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

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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”)

Noun

大(おお)空(ぞら) • (ōzora) ^{←おほぞら (ofozora)?}

1. firmament; heavens; sky
   • 2004 March 10, Kozue Amano, “Navigation18 [空](そら)を[泳](およ)ぐ[魚](さかな) [Navigation18 A Fish That Swims in the Sky]”, in (deprecated template usage) ARIA(アリア) (ARIA(アリア)) [Aria], volume 4 (fiction), Tokyo: Mag Garden, →ISBN, page 106:

     その日(ひ)　私(わたし)が出会(であ)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