大字

Chinese

		big; great; huge big; great; huge; large; major; wide; deep; oldest; eldest; doctor	letter; symbol; character letter; symbol; character; word
simp. and trad. (大字)		大	字

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): dàzì

  (Zhuyin): ㄉㄚˋ ㄗˋ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): daai⁶ zi⁶
• Puxian Min (Pouseng Ping'ing): dua⁵ zi⁵
• Southern Min (Hokkien, POJ): tōa-lī / tōa-jī

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: dàzì
    • Zhuyin: ㄉㄚˋ ㄗˋ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: dàzìh
    • Wade–Giles: ta⁴-tzŭ⁴
    • Yale: dà-dz̀
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: dahtzyh
    • Palladius: дацзы (daczy)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /tä⁵¹⁻⁵³ t͡sz̩⁵¹/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
    • Jyutping: daai⁶ zi⁶
    • Yale: daaih jih
    • Cantonese Pinyin: daai⁶ dzi⁶
    • Guangdong Romanization: dai⁶ ji⁶
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /taːi̯²² t͡siː²²/
• Puxian Min
  • (Putian, Xianyou)
    • Pouseng Ping'ing: dua⁵ zi⁵ [Phonetic: dua⁴ li⁵]
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /tua²¹⁻⁴² ^(t͡s-)li²¹/
• Southern Min
  • (Hokkien: Xiamen, Quanzhou, Jinjiang, Taipei, Philippines, Singapore)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: tōa-lī
    • Tâi-lô: tuā-lī
    • Phofsit Daibuun: doaxli
    • IPA (Taipei): /tua³³⁻¹¹ li³³/
    • IPA (Quanzhou, Jinjiang, Philippines): /tua⁴¹⁻²² li⁴¹/
    • IPA (Xiamen, Singapore): /tua²²⁻²¹ li²²/
  • (Hokkien: Zhangzhou, Kaohsiung, Singapore)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: tōa-jī
    • Tâi-lô: tuā-jī
    • Phofsit Daibuun: doaxji
    • IPA (Zhangzhou, Singapore): /tua²²⁻²¹ d͡zi²²/
    • IPA (Kaohsiung): /tua³³⁻²¹ zi³³/

Noun

大字

1. big Chinese character; large character
2. (specifically) big characters written with a calligraphy brush

   寫大字／写大字 [Cantonese]  ―  se² daai⁶ zi⁶ [Jyutping]  ―  (please add an English translation of this usage example)

3. (colloquial) Chinese characters in general; writing

   大字不識幾個／大字不识几个  ―  dàzì bùshí jǐge  ―  able to recognize only a handful of Chinese characters; illiterate

4. (historical) Khitan large script

   Synonym: 契丹大字 (qìdān dàzì)

   Coordinate term: 小字 (xiǎozì)

5. (Hokkien, Puxian Min) passport
6. (Singapore Hokkien, dated) birth certificate
7. (Philippine Hokkien, dated) landing certificate of residence

Usage notes

Usage in the Philippines refers specifically to the old Landing Certificate of Residence document that Chinese migrants were required to have during the American Colonial Era and Commonwealth Period in the Philippines as required by the Chinese Exclusion Act of the United States applied to the Philippine Islands from 1902-1943 as part of the United States. Chinese Filipino families tracing back to this era use this term to refer to this heirloom document.

Synonyms

• (passport):

Dialectal synonyms of 護照 (“passport”) [map]

Variety	Location	Words edit
Formal (Written Standard Chinese)		護照
Northeastern Mandarin	Taiwan	護照
	Malaysia	護照
	Singapore	護照
Central Plains Mandarin	Sokuluk (Gansu Dungan)	護照, паспорт
Southwestern Mandarin	Dagudi (Maliba)	護照
	Reshuitang (Longling)	護照
	Mae Salong (Lancang)	護照
	Mae Sai (Tengchong)	護照
Cantonese	Guangzhou	護照
	Hong Kong	護照, passport
	Beihai (Qiaogang - Cô Tô)	護照
	Beihai (Qiaogang - Cát Bà)	護照
	Fangchenggang (Fangcheng)	護照
	Ho Chi Minh City (Guangfu)	護照
	Móng Cái	護照
Hakka	Yudu	護照
	Miaoli (N. Sixian)	護照
	Hsinchu County (Zhudong; Hailu)	護照
	Taichung (Dongshi; Dabu)	護照
	Hsinchu County (Qionglin; Raoping)	護照
	Yunlin (Lunbei; Zhao'an)	護照
Southern Min	Xiamen	大字
	Quanzhou	大字
	Jinjiang	大字
	Zhangzhou	大字
	Tainan	護照
	Penang (Hokkien)	pasport
	Singapore (Hokkien)	passport
	Manila (Hokkien)	護照
	Chaozhou	護照
	Shantou	護照
	Jieyang	護照, 字
	Pontianak (Teochew)	護照
	Wenchang	護照
Wu	Shanghai	護照

• (birth certificate):

Dialectal synonyms of 出生證 (“birth certificate”) [map]

Variety	Location	Words edit
Formal (Written Standard Chinese)		出生證, 出生證明, 出生證明書, 出生證書
Northeastern Mandarin	Taiwan	出生證, 出生證明, 出生證明書, 出生證書
	Malaysia	報生紙
	Singapore	報生紙
Cantonese	Guangzhou	出世紙
	Hong Kong	出世紙
	Macau	出世紙
	Taishan	出世紙
	Singapore (Guangfu)	報生紙
Hakka	Huizhou (Huicheng; Bendihua)	出世紙
Southern Min	Penang (Hokkien)	生囝字
	Singapore (Hokkien)	生字仔, 報生紙, 大字 dated, 生囝字 dated
	Manila (Hokkien)	出生紙
	Jieyang	出生字, 出生紙
	Singapore (Teochew)	生囝字
Southern Pinghua	Nanning (Tingzi)	出生證

Derived terms

• 做大字
• 大字報 / 大字报 (dàzìbào)
• 大字本 (dàzìběn)
• 契丹大字 (qìdān dàzì)

 

References

• 莆田市政协文化文史和学习委员会 [Culture, History and Learning Committee of Putian CPPCC], editor (2021), “大字”, in 莆仙方言大词典 [Comprehensive Dictionary of Puxian Dialect] (overall work in Mandarin and Puxian Min), Xiamen University Press, →ISBN, page 168.

Japanese

Etymology 1

Kanji in this term
大	字
おお Grade: 1	あざ Grade: 1
kun'yomi

For pronunciation and definitions of 大字 – see the following entry.

【おおあざ】 [noun] ōaza, a larger section of a 村(むら) (mura, “village”), usually used in addresses of rural locations

(This term, 大字, is an alternative spelling of the above term.)

Etymology 2

Kanji in this term
大	字
だい Grade: 1	じ Grade: 1
on'yomi

Noun

大(だい)字(じ) • (daiji) 

1. a large character
2. formal way of writing numbers (e.g., writing 参 instead of 三 for three)

Further reading

• Japanese numerals on Wikipedia.Wikipedia