大將軍

See also: 大将軍, and 大将军

Chinese

		big; great; huge big; great; huge; large; major; wide; deep; oldest; eldest; doctor	general; sulfur
trad. (大將軍)		大	將軍
simp. (大将军)		大	将军

Etymology

An official position which came into being during the Warring States Period, and reached the zenith of its influence during the Han dynasty. At first, the person in this position was the supreme military commander (modern equivalent ~ Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff). During the later half of the Han dynasty, he also took over the day to day executive affairs of government (modern equivalent ~ Hideki Tojo). During the Three Kingdoms period, the position again became military-related (modern equivalent ~ United States Secretary of Defense).

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): dàjiāngjūn

  (Zhuyin): ㄉㄚˋ ㄐㄧㄤ ㄐㄩㄣ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): daai⁶ zoeng¹ gwan¹

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: dàjiāngjūn → dàjiāngjun (toneless final syllable variant)
    • Zhuyin: ㄉㄚˋ ㄐㄧㄤ ㄐㄩㄣ → ㄉㄚˋ ㄐㄧㄤ ˙ㄐㄩㄣ (toneless final syllable variant)
    • Tongyong Pinyin: dàjiangjyůn
    • Wade–Giles: ta⁴-chiang¹-chün⁵
    • Yale: dà-jyāng-jyun
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: dahjiang.jiun
    • Palladius: дацзянцзюнь (daczjanczjunʹ)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /tä⁵¹ t͡ɕi̯ɑŋ⁵⁵ t͡ɕyn⁵⁵/ → /tä⁵¹ t͡ɕi̯ɑŋ⁵⁵ d͡ʑ̥yn²/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
    • Jyutping: daai⁶ zoeng¹ gwan¹
    • Yale: daaih jēung gwān
    • Cantonese Pinyin: daai⁶ dzoeng¹ gwan¹
    • Guangdong Romanization: dai⁶ zêng¹ guen¹
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /taːi̯²² t͡sœːŋ⁵⁵ kʷɐn⁵⁵/

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• Middle Chinese: dajH|daH tsjang kjun

Rime
Character	大	大	將	軍
Reading #	1/2	2/2	1/2	1/1
Initial (聲)	定 (7)	定 (7)	精 (13)	見 (28)
Final (韻)	泰 (25)	歌 (94)	陽 (105)	文 (59)
Tone (調)	Departing (H)	Departing (H)	Level (Ø)	Level (Ø)
Openness (開合)	Open	Open	Open	Closed
Division (等)	I	I	III	III
Fanqie	徒蓋切	唐佐切	即良切	舉云切
Baxter	dajH	daH	tsjang	kjun
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/dɑiH/	/dɑH/	/t͡sɨɐŋ/	/kɨun/
Pan Wuyun	/dɑiH/	/dɑH/	/t͡siɐŋ/	/kiun/
Shao Rongfen	/dɑiH/	/dɑH/	/t͡siɑŋ/	/kiuən/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/dajH/	/daH/	/t͡sɨaŋ/	/kun/
Li Rong	/dɑiH/	/dɑH/	/t͡siaŋ/	/kiuən/
Wang Li	/dɑiH/	/dɑH/	/t͡sĭaŋ/	/kĭuən/
Bernard Karlgren	/dʱɑiH/	/dʱɑH/	/t͡si̯aŋ/	/ki̯uən/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	dài	duò	jiāng	jūn
Expected Cantonese Reflex	daai6	do6	zoeng1	gwan1

• Old Chinese

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

  (Zhengzhang): /*daːds  ʔsaŋ  kun/

Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	大	大	將	軍
Reading #	1/2	2/2	1/2	1/1
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	dà	dà	jiāng	jūn
Middle Chinese	‹ daH ›	‹ dajH ›	‹ tsjang ›	‹ kjun ›
Old Chinese	/*lˁat-s/ (MC F!)	/*lˁa[t]-s/	/*[ts]aŋ/	/*[k]ʷər/
English	big	big	bring	army; camp
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	將	軍
Reading #	1/2	2/2	1/2	1/1
No.	1934	1939	10286	7333
Phonetic component	大	大	爿	軍
Rime group	祭	祭	陽	文
Rime subdivision	1	1	0	2
Corresponding MC rime	䭾	大	將	君
Old Chinese	/*daːds/	/*daːds/	/*ʔsaŋ/	/*kun/

Noun

大將軍

1. (archaic) supreme general; commander in chief

Descendants

Sino-Xenic (大將軍):

• → Japanese: 大(たい)将(しょう)軍(ぐん) (taishōgun)

(Others)

• → Tocharian B: taittsyāṅkuṃ

References

• Hara, Yōhei (2003) 圖解三國時代, p. 251 (in Mandarin), →ISBN

Japanese

Kanji in this term
大	將	軍
たい Grade: 1	しょう Jinmeiyō	ぐん Grade: 4
on'yomi

For pronunciation and definitions of 大將軍 – see the following entry.

【大将軍たいしょうぐん】 [noun] (military, historical) a commander in chief, especially: [noun] under the 律令 (Ritsuryō) system, a commander of three lesser 将軍 (shōgun) each commanding 3000 soldiers [from Asuka to Nara period] [noun] a commander of an expeditionary force with the task of subduing rebels against the imperial court or barbarians [from Nara to Heian period] [noun] a commanding officer of the imperial court leading a group of samurai from relating or dependent families [since the end of the Heian period] [noun] a shogun [since the Kamakura period] [noun] the head of a samurai family or other warrior class [noun] the leader of a faction, cabal, , or other group of conspirators [noun] (cosmology) in Onmyodo, one of the eight gods of the 暦 (koyomi, “almanac”)

(This term, 大將軍, is the kyūjitai of the above term.)