大法

Chinese

		big; great; huge big; great; huge; large; major; wide; deep; oldest; eldest; doctor	law; method; way law; method; way; Buddhist teaching; Legalist; France (abbrev.)
simp. and trad. (大法)		大	法
anagram		法大

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): dàfǎ

  (Zhuyin): ㄉㄚˋ ㄈㄚˇ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): daai⁶ faat³

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: dàfǎ
    • Zhuyin: ㄉㄚˋ ㄈㄚˇ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: dàfǎ
    • Wade–Giles: ta⁴-fa³
    • Yale: dà-fǎ
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: dahfaa
    • Palladius: дафа (dafa)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /tä⁵¹ fä²¹⁴⁻²¹⁽⁴⁾/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
    • Jyutping: daai⁶ faat³
    • Yale: daaih faat
    • Cantonese Pinyin: daai⁶ faat⁸
    • Guangdong Romanization: dai⁶ fad³
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /taːi̯²² faːt̚³/

Noun

大法

1. primary method
2. major statute
3. constitution

Synonyms

• (constitution): 憲法／宪法 (xiànfǎ)

Derived terms

• 大大法法
• 大法官 (dàfǎguān)
• 大法官會議 / 大法官会议
• 大法小廉
• 大法師 / 大法师
• 大法螺
• 小廉大法
• 律設大法，理順人情 / 律设大法，理顺人情

 

Descendants

Sino-Xenic (大法):

• → Korean: 대법(大法) (daebeop)

Further reading

• Ding, Fubao (丁福保) (1922), “大法” in 佛學大辭典 [A Dictionary of Chinese Buddhist Terms].