大阪

See also: 大坂

Chinese

		big; great; huge big; great; huge; large; major; wide; deep; oldest; eldest; doctor	a slope; hillside
trad. (大阪)		大	阪
simp. #(大阪)		大	阪
alternative forms		大坂

Etymology

Orthographic borrowing from Japanese 大阪 (Ōsaka, literally “large hill”).

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): Dàbǎn

  (Zhuyin): ㄉㄚˋ ㄅㄢˇ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): daai⁶ baan²
• Southern Min (Hokkien, POJ): Tāi-pán

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: Dàbǎn
    • Zhuyin: ㄉㄚˋ ㄅㄢˇ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: Dàbǎn
    • Wade–Giles: Ta⁴-pan³
    • Yale: Dà-bǎn
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: Dahbaan
    • Palladius: Дабань (Dabanʹ)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /tä⁵¹ pän²¹⁴⁻²¹⁽⁴⁾/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
    • Jyutping: daai⁶ baan²
    • Yale: daaih báan
    • Cantonese Pinyin: daai⁶ baan²
    • Guangdong Romanization: dai⁶ ban²
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /taːi̯²² paːn³⁵/
• Southern Min
  • (Hokkien)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: Tāi-pán
    • Tâi-lô: Tāi-pán
    • Phofsit Daibuun: daixparn
    • IPA (Xiamen): /tai²²⁻²¹ pan⁵³/
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /tai⁴¹⁻²² pan⁵⁵⁴/
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /tai²²⁻²¹ pan⁵³/
    • IPA (Taipei): /tai³³⁻¹¹ pan⁵³/
    • IPA (Kaohsiung): /tai³³⁻²¹ pan⁴¹/

Proper noun

(deprecated template usage) 大阪

1. (～市) Ōsaka (a city in Ōsaka prefecture, Japan)
2. (～府) Ōsaka (a prefecture of Japan)

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Japanese

Alternative forms

• (obsolete) 大坂

Etymology 1

Kanji in this term
大	阪
おお Grade: 1	さか Grade: 4
kun'yomi

Compound of 大 (ō, “large, great”) +‎ 阪 (saka, “hill”). The geographical area was historically known as 小坂 (Wosaka → Osaka, literally “little hill”) and was renamed to mean literally a “large hill”.

Originally spelled as 大坂 until the early Meiji period, possibly for some superstitious reason.

Proper noun

File:大阪.jpg

大阪 "Osaka"

大(おお)阪(さか) or 大阪(proper) • (ōsaka or proper) ^{←おほさか (ofosaka)?}[[Category:Japanese
|おおさか]]

1. a placename, especially:
   1. Short for 大阪府 (Ōsaka-fu): a prefecture in the 近畿 (Kinki) region of Japan facing the Seto Inland Sea
   2. Short for 大阪市 (Ōsaka-shi): the capital city of Osaka Prefecture

Derived terms

Derived terms

• 大(おお)阪(さか)浅(あさ)漬(づ)け (Ōsaka asazuke)
• 大(おお)阪(さか)切(き)り漬(づ)け (Ōsaka kirizuke)
• 大(おお)阪(さか)港(こう) (Ōsaka-kō)
• 大(おお)阪(さか)狭(さ)山(やま) (Ōsakasayama)
• 大(おお)阪(さか)事(じ)件(けん) (Ōsaka jiken)
• 大(おお)阪(さか)城(じょう) (Ōsaka-jō)
• 大(おお)阪(さか)証(しょう)券(けん)取(とり)引(ひき)所(じょ) (Ōsaka shōken torihikijo)
• 大(おお)阪(さか)鮨(ずし) (Ōsaka-zushi)
• 大(おお)阪(さか)相撲(ずもう) (Ōsaka-zumō)
• 大(おお)阪(さか)都(と) (Ōsaka-to)
• 大(おお)阪(さか)撫(なでし)子(こ) (Ōsaka nadeshiko)
• 大(おお)阪(さか)俄(にわか) (Ōsaka niwaka)
• 大(おお)阪(さか)場(ば)所(しょ) (Ōsaka basho)
• 大(おお)阪(さか)平(へい)野(や) (Ōsaka heiya)
• 大(おお)阪(さか)弁(べん) (Ōsaka-ben)
• 大(おお)阪(さか)落(らく)語(ご) (Ōsaka rakugo)
• 大(おお)阪(さか)-湾(わん) (Ōsaka-wan)
• 東(ひがし)大(おお)阪(さか) (Higashiōsaka)

Idioms

• 大(おお)阪(さか)の食(く)い倒(だお)れ (Ōsaka no kuidaore)

Etymology 2

Kanji in this term
大	阪
おお Grade: 1	さか > ざか Grade: 4
kun'yomi

The saka changes to zaka as an instance of rendaku (連濁)..

Proper noun

大(おお)阪(ざか) or 大阪(proper) • (ōzaka or proper) ^{←おほざか (ofozaka)?}[[Category:Japanese
|おおさか']]

1. Archaic spelling of おおさか (Ōsaka) above

Coordinate terms

• 逢(おう)坂(さか) (Ōsaka)
• 難(なに)波(わ) (Naniwa)

See also

• 阪(はん)神(しん) (Hanshin, “Osaka and Kobe”)
• 京(けい)阪(はん) (Keihan, “Kyoto and Osaka”)