大陸

See also: 大陆

Chinese

		big; great; huge big; great; huge; large; major; wide; deep; oldest; eldest; doctor	shore; land; continent shore; land; continent; six (fraud-proof)
trad. (大陸)		大	陸
simp. (大陆)		大	陆

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): dàlù

  (Zhuyin): ㄉㄚˋ ㄌㄨˋ

• Cantonese

  (Guangzhou–Hong Kong, Jyutping): daai⁶ luk⁶

  (Taishan, Wiktionary): ai⁵ luuk⁵

• Hakka

  (Sixian, PFS): thai-liu̍k

  (Hailu, HRS): tai^ˇ liug^ˋ

• Eastern Min (BUC): dâi-lṳ̆k
• Puxian Min (Pouseng Ping'ing): dai⁵ loeh⁷ / dai⁵ lyoeh⁷
• Southern Min

  (Hokkien, POJ): tāi-lio̍k

  (Teochew, Peng'im): dai⁶ lêg⁸

• Wu (Shanghai, Wugniu): ⁶da-loq

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)
    • Hanyu Pinyin: dàlù
    • Zhuyin: ㄉㄚˋ ㄌㄨˋ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: dàlù
    • Wade–Giles: ta⁴-lu⁴
    • Yale: dà-lù
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: dahluh
    • Palladius: далу (dalu)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /tä⁵¹⁻⁵³ lu⁵¹/
    • Homophones:

      edit edit 大路 大陸 / 大陆 大鹿

• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
    • Jyutping: daai⁶ luk⁶
    • Yale: daaih luhk
    • Cantonese Pinyin: daai⁶ luk⁹
    • Guangdong Romanization: dai⁶ lug⁶
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /taːi̯²² lʊk̚²/
  • (Taishanese, Taicheng)
    • Wiktionary: ai⁵ luuk⁵
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /ai³² lɵk̚³²/
• Hakka
  • (Sixian, incl. Miaoli and Neipu)
    • Pha̍k-fa-sṳ: thai-liu̍k
    • Hakka Romanization System: tai liug
    • Hagfa Pinyim: tai⁴ liug⁶
    • Sinological IPA: /tʰai̯⁵⁵ li̯uk̚⁵/
  • (Hailu, incl. Zhudong)
    • Hakka Romanization System: tai^ˇ liug^ˋ
    • Sinological IPA: /tʰai¹¹ liuk²/
• Eastern Min
  • (Fuzhou)
    • Bàng-uâ-cê: dâi-lṳ̆k
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /tai²⁴²⁻⁵⁵ l̃yʔ⁵/
• Puxian Min
  • (Putian)
    • Pouseng Ping'ing: dai⁵ loeh⁷
    • Báⁿ-uā-ci̍: dāi-le̤̍h
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /tai¹¹ lœʔ⁴/
  • (Xianyou)
    • Pouseng Ping'ing: dai⁵ lyoeh⁷
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /tai²¹ lyøʔ⁴/
• Southern Min
  • (Hokkien: Xiamen, Quanzhou, Zhangzhou, General Taiwanese, Singapore, Philippines)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: tāi-lio̍k
    • Tâi-lô: tāi-lio̍k
    • Phofsit Daibuun: daixliok
    • Sinological IPA (Taipei): /tai³³⁻¹¹ liɔk̚⁴/
    • Sinological IPA (Quanzhou, Philippines): /tai⁴¹⁻²² liɔk̚²⁴/
    • Sinological IPA (Singapore): /tai²²⁻²¹ liɔk̚⁴³/
    • Sinological IPA (Kaohsiung): /tai³³⁻²¹ liɔk̚⁴/
    • Sinological IPA (Zhangzhou): /tai²²⁻²¹ liɔk̚¹²¹/
    • Sinological IPA (Xiamen): /tai²²⁻²¹ liɔk̚⁴/
  • (Teochew)
    • Peng'im: dai⁶ lêg⁸
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī-like: tăi le̍k
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /tai³⁵⁻¹¹ lek̚⁴/
• Wu
  • (Northern: Shanghai)
    • Wugniu: ⁶da-loq
    • MiniDict: da^去 loh
    • Wiktionary Romanisation (Shanghai): ³da-loq
    • Sinological IPA (Shanghai): /da²² loʔ⁴⁴/

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• Middle Chinese: dajH ljuwk

Rime
Character	大	陸
Reading #	1/2	1/1
Initial (聲)	定 (7)	來 (37)
Final (韻)	泰 (25)	屋 (4)
Tone (調)	Departing (H)	Checked (Ø)
Openness (開合)	Open	Open
Division (等)	I	III
Fanqie	徒蓋切	力竹切
Baxter	dajH	ljuwk
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/dɑiH/	/lɨuk̚/
Pan Wuyun	/dɑiH/	/liuk̚/
Shao Rongfen	/dɑiH/	/liuk̚/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/dajH/	/luwk̚/
Li Rong	/dɑiH/	/liuk̚/
Wang Li	/dɑiH/	/lĭuk̚/
Bernhard Karlgren	/dʱɑiH/	/li̯uk̚/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	dài	lù
Expected Cantonese Reflex	daai6	luk6

Noun

大陸

1. continent; landmass

   歐亞大陸／欧亚大陆  ―  Ōu Yà dàlù  ―  Eurasia

2. mainland

Synonyms

• (landmass): 大片陸地／大片陆地 (dàpiàn lùdì), 陸地／陆地 (lùdì)

Derived terms

• 中國大陸 / 中国大陆 (Zhōngguó dàlù)
• 大陸坡 / 大陆坡
• 大陸島 / 大陆岛
• 大陸性 / 大陆性
• 大陸架 / 大陆架 (dàlùjià)
• 大陸棚 / 大陆棚 (dàlùpéng)
• 大陸橋 / 大陆桥
• 大陸法 / 大陆法 (dàlùfǎ)
• 大陸法系 / 大陆法系 (dàlùfǎxì)
• 大陸漂移 / 大陆漂移 (dàlù piāoyí)
• 次大陸 / 次大陆 (cìdàlù)
• 歐亞大陸 / 欧亚大陆
• 歐洲大陸 / 欧洲大陆 (Ōuzhōudàlù)
• 盤古大陸 / 盘古大陆 (Pángǔ Dàlù)

Proper noun

大陸

1. mainland China

   • 發生了大地震，大陸及港、澳、台三地藝人為了救災共襄盛舉，舉辦了多場演唱會。 [MSC, trad.]
     发生了大地震，大陆及港、澳、台三地艺人为了救灾共襄盛举，举办了多场演唱会。 [MSC, simp.]

     From: "499. 共襄盛舉." 500 Common Chinese Idioms: An annotated Frequency Dictionary. Liwei Jiao, Cornelius C. Kubler, and Weiguo Zhang. 2011.

     Fāshēng le dà dìzhèn, Dàlù jí Gǎng, Ào, Tái sān dì yìrén wèile jiùzāi gòngxiāngshèngjǔ, jǔbàn le duō chǎng yǎnchànghuì. [Pinyin]

     After the major earthquake, artists from the Mainland, Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan all worked together to perform several concerts to collect funds for disaster relief.

   • 而現在
     鄉愁是一灣淺淺的海峽
     我在這頭
     大陸在那頭 [MSC, trad.]
     而现在
     乡愁是一湾浅浅的海峡
     我在这头
     大陆在那头 [MSC, simp.]

     From: 1972, 余光中 (Yu Kwang-chung), 鄉愁

     ér xiànzài
     Xiāngchóu shì yī wān qiǎn qiǎn de hǎixiá
     Wǒ zài zhè tóu
     Dàlù zài nà tóu [Pinyin]

     And now
     Homesick is a shallow strait
     I am here
     And Mainland is there

Usage notes

In Hong Kong and Macau Cantonese, when describing the action of "going to mainland China", the verb 返 (faan¹, “to return (to)”) is usually used instead of 去 (heoi³, “to go (to)”) even if the speaker was born in Hong Kong or Macau. However, this usage is proscribed by some Hong Kong independence activists.

People living in Hainan may exclude Hainan from this term:

• 2015 August, 董亚火, quotee, edited by 海南省委党史研究室, 海南省抗日战争时期人口伤亡和财产损失, Beijing: 中共党史出版社, →ISBN, page 234:

  日本已投降，国民党经济部来接收，说工人可以回大陆，叫大家集中，骗大家回去，说有衣服发给钱，回家到海口坐船。 [MSC, simp.]
  日本已投降，國民黨經濟部來接收，說工人可以回大陸，叫大家集中，騙大家回去，說有衣服發給錢，回家到海口坐船。 [MSC, trad.]

  Rìběn yǐ tóujiàng, Guómíndǎng Jīngjìbù lái jiēshōu, shuō gōngrén kěyǐ huí dàlù, jiào dàjiā jízhōng, piàn dàjiā huíqù, shuō yǒu yīfú fā gěi qián, huíjiā dào Hǎikǒu zuòchuán. [Pinyin]

  (please add an English translation of this quotation)

However, for people living elsewhere, the concept of 'mainland China' includes Hainan.

Synonyms

• 內地／内地 (nèidì)
• 中國大陸／中国大陆 (Zhōngguó dàlù)
• 中國內地／中国内地 (Zhōngguó nèidì)
• (Taiwan) 唐山 (Tángshān)
• (Taiwanese Hakka) 長山／长山

Derived terms

• 大陸人 / 大陆人 (dàlùrén)
• 大陸仔 / 大陆仔
• 大陸佬 / 大陆佬
• 大陸化 / 大陆化 (dàlùhuà)
• 大陸喱 / 大陆喱
• 大陸妹 / 大陆妹 (dàlùmèi)
• 陸本 / 陆本 (lùběn)

See also

• (Taiwanese Hokkien) 阿山 (Āshān)

Descendants

Sino-Xenic (大陸):

• → Japanese: 大陸(たいりく) (tairiku)
• → Korean: 대륙(大陸) (daeryuk)
• → Vietnamese: đại lục (大陸)

Japanese

Kanji in this term
大	陸
たい Grade: 1	りく Grade: 4
on'yomi

Pronunciation

• (Tokyo) たいりく [tàíríkú] (Heiban – [0])
• IPA^(key): [ta̠iɾʲikɯ̟]

Noun

大(たい)陸(りく) • (tairiku) 

1. (geology) a continent

   アフリカ大陸(たいりく)

   afurika-tairiku

   the continent of Africa

2. (especially) China

Derived terms

• 亜(あ)大陸(たいりく) (atairiku, “subcontinent”)

Derived terms

• 大陸棚(たいりくだな) (tairiku dana): continental shelf
• 大陸斜面(たいりくしゃめん) (tairiku shamen): continental slope
• 大陸移動(たいりくいどう) (tairiku idō): continental drift
• 大陸国家(たいりくこっか) (tairiku kokka): continental state
• タイリクオオカミ (tairiku ōkami): grey wolf
• 大陸横断鉄道(たいりくおうだんてつどう) (tairiku ōdan tetsudō): transcontinental railroad

References

• “大陸”, in 漢字ぺディア [Kanjipedia]‎^[1] (in Japanese), The Japan Kanji Aptitude Testing Foundation, 2015–2026

Korean

Hanja in this term
大	陸

Noun

大陸 • (daeryuk) (hangeul 대륙)

1. hanja form^? of 대륙 (“continent”)

Vietnamese

chữ Hán Nôm in this term
大	陸

Noun

大陸

1. chữ Hán form of đại lục (“continent”)