大雀

Chinese

		big; great; huge big; great; huge; large; major; wide; deep; oldest; eldest; doctor	bird; lentigo; sparrow
simp. and trad. (大雀)		大	雀
alternative forms		大爵

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): dàquè

  (Zhuyin): ㄉㄚˋ ㄑㄩㄝˋ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): daai⁶ zoek³

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: dàquè
    • Zhuyin: ㄉㄚˋ ㄑㄩㄝˋ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: dàcyuè
    • Wade–Giles: ta⁴-chʻüeh⁴
    • Yale: dà-chywè
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: dahchiueh
    • Palladius: дацюэ (dacjue)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /tä⁵¹⁻⁵³ t͡ɕʰy̯ɛ⁵¹/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
    • Jyutping: daai⁶ zoek³
    • Yale: daaih jeuk
    • Cantonese Pinyin: daai⁶ dzoek⁸
    • Guangdong Romanization: dai⁶ zêg³
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /taːi̯²² t͡sœːk̚³/

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• Middle Chinese: dajH tsjak

Rime
Character	大	雀
Reading #	1/2	1/1
Initial (聲)	定 (7)	精 (13)
Final (韻)	泰 (25)	藥 (107)
Tone (調)	Departing (H)	Checked (Ø)
Openness (開合)	Open	Open
Division (等)	I	III
Fanqie	徒蓋切	即略切
Baxter	dajH	tsjak
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/dɑiH/	/t͡sɨɐk̚/
Pan Wuyun	/dɑiH/	/t͡siɐk̚/
Shao Rongfen	/dɑiH/	/t͡siɑk̚/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/dajH/	/t͡sɨak̚/
Li Rong	/dɑiH/	/t͡siak̚/
Wang Li	/dɑiH/	/t͡sĭak̚/
Bernard Karlgren	/dʱɑiH/	/t͡si̯ak̚/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	dài	jue
Expected Cantonese Reflex	daai6	zoek3

• Old Chinese

  (Baxter–Sagart): /*lˤat-s|lˤa[t]-s  [ts]ewk/

  (Zhengzhang): /*daːds  ʔsewɢ/

Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	大	大	雀
Reading #	1/2	2/2	1/1
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	dà	dà	què
Middle Chinese	‹ daH ›	‹ dajH ›	‹ tsjak ›
Old Chinese	/*lˁat-s/ (MC F!)	/*lˁa[t]-s/	/*[ts]ewk/
English	big	big	sparrow
Notes for Old Chinese notations in the Baxter–Sagart system: * Parentheses "()" indicate uncertain presence; * Square brackets "[]" indicate uncertain identity, e.g. *[t] as coda may in fact be *-t or *-p; * Angle brackets "<>" indicate infix; * Hyphen "-" indicates morpheme boundary; * Period "." indicates syllable boundary.

Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character	大	大	雀
Reading #	1/2	2/2	1/1
No.	1934	1939	10745
Phonetic component	大	大	雀
Rime group	祭	祭	藥
Rime subdivision	1	1	2
Corresponding MC rime	䭾	大	爵
Old Chinese	/*daːds/	/*daːds/	/*ʔsewɢ/

Noun

大雀

1. (obsolete) ostrich

Synonyms

• 鴕鳥／鸵鸟 (tuóniǎo)