大禹

Chinese

		big old(er) great	Yu (ancient king)
trad. (大禹)		大	禹
simp. #(大禹)		大	禹

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): Dà Yǔ

  (Zhuyin): ㄉㄚˋ ㄩˇ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): daai⁶ jyu⁵

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: Dà Yǔ
    • Zhuyin: ㄉㄚˋ ㄩˇ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: Dà Yǔ
    • Wade–Giles: Ta⁴ Yü³
    • Yale: Dà Yǔ
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: Dah Yeu
    • Palladius: Да Юй (Da Juj)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /tä⁵¹ y²¹⁴⁻²¹⁽⁴⁾/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
    • Jyutping: daai⁶ jyu⁵
    • Yale: daaih yúh
    • Cantonese Pinyin: daai⁶ jy⁵
    • Guangdong Romanization: dai⁶ yu⁵
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /taːi̯²² jyː¹³/
    • Homophones:

      edit edit 大禹 大語 / 大语 大雨

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• Middle Chinese: dajH hjuX

Rime
Character	大	禹
Reading #	1/2	1/1
Initial (聲)	定 (7)	云 (35)
Final (韻)	泰 (25)	虞 (24)
Tone (調)	Departing (H)	Rising (X)
Openness (開合)	Open	Closed
Division (等)	I	III
Fanqie	徒蓋切	王矩切
Baxter	dajH	hjuX
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/dɑiH/	/ɦɨoX/
Pan Wuyun	/dɑiH/	/ɦioX/
Shao Rongfen	/dɑiH/	/ɣioX/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/dajH/	/ɦuə̆X/
Li Rong	/dɑiH/	/ɣioX/
Wang Li	/dɑiH/	/ɣĭuX/
Bernhard Karlgren	/dʱɑiH/	/i̯uX/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	dài	yǔ
Expected Cantonese Reflex	daai6	jyu5

• Old Chinese

  (Baxter–Sagart): /*lˤa[t]-s  [ɢ]ʷ(r)aʔ/

  (Zhengzhang): /*daːds  ɢʷaʔ/

Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	大	禹
Reading #	2/2	1/1
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	dà	yǔ
Middle Chinese	‹ dajH ›	‹ hjuX ›
Old Chinese	/*lˁa[t]-s/	/*[ɢ]ʷ(r)aʔ/
English	big	insect; proper name
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	禹
Reading #	1/2	1/1
No.	1934	15960
Phonetic component	大	禹
Rime group	祭	魚
Rime subdivision	1	0
Corresponding MC rime	䭾	羽
Old Chinese	/*daːds/	/*ɢʷaʔ/

Proper noun

大禹

1. Yu the Great (legendary ruler in ancient China, famed for introducing flood control and founding the Xia dynasty)

Related terms

• 禹貢 / 禹贡 (Yǔ Gòng)