大英帝国

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Chinese

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For pronunciation and definitions of 大英帝国 – see 大英帝國 (“the British Empire”).
(This term is the simplified form of 大英帝國).
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Japanese

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Kanji in this term
大 英 帝 国
だい
Grade: 1 		えい
Grade: 4 		てい
Grade: S 		こく
Grade: 2
on'yomi
Alternative spelling
大英帝國 (kyūjitai)

Etymology

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大 (dai, “great”) +‎ 英 (ei, “Britain”) +‎ 帝国 (teikoku, “empire”)

Pronunciation

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  • (Tokyo) だいえーてーこく [dàíéé téꜜèkòkù] (Nakadaka – [5])[1]
  • IPA(key): [da̠ie̞ː te̞ːko̞kɯ̟]

Proper noun

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大(だい)英(えい)帝(てい)国(こく) • (Daiei Teikoku) 

  1. (historical) the British Empire[2]

Synonyms

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See also

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References

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  1. ^ “大英帝国”, in 日本国語大辞典 (Nihon Kokugo Daijiten, “Nihon Kokugo Daijiten”) Paid subscription required‎[1] (in Japanese), 2nd edition, Tōkyō: Shogakukan, 2000, released online 2007, →ISBN, concise edition entry available here (Note: Dialectal meanings, etymological theories, pronunciation including modern, dialectal, and historical information, Jōdai Tokushu Kanazukai, historical dictionaries containing this word, and the kanji spellings in those dictionaries have been omitted.)
  2. ^ “大英帝国”, in ブリタニカ国際大百科事典 小項目事典 (Buritanika Kokusai Dai Hyakka Jiten: Shō Kōmoku Jiten, “Encyclopædia Britannica International: Micropædia”)‎[2] (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Britannica Japan Co., Ltd., 2014
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