大館

Chinese

		big; great; huge big; great; huge; large; major; wide; deep; oldest; eldest; doctor	house; establishment
trad. (大館)		大	館
simp. (大馆)		大	馆

Etymology 1

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): Dàguǎn

  (Zhuyin): ㄉㄚˋ ㄍㄨㄢˇ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): daai⁶ gun²

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: Dàguǎn
    • Zhuyin: ㄉㄚˋ ㄍㄨㄢˇ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: Dàguǎn
    • Wade–Giles: Ta⁴-kuan³
    • Yale: Dà-gwǎn
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: Dahgoan
    • Palladius: Дагуань (Daguanʹ)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /tä⁵¹ ku̯än²¹⁴⁻²¹⁽⁴⁾/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
    • Jyutping: daai⁶ gun²
    • Yale: daaih gún
    • Cantonese Pinyin: daai⁶ gun²
    • Guangdong Romanization: dai⁶ gun²
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /taːi̯²² kuːn³⁵/

Proper noun

大館

1. (Hong Kong, historical) the former Central Police Station
   • 1904, James Dyer Ball, How to Speak Cantonese, third edition, Hongkong: Kelly & Walsh, pages 220–221:

     好彩有個差人遇着個賊、截住佢、拉佢上大館 [Cantonese, trad.]
     好彩有个差人遇着个贼、截住佢、拉佢上大馆 [Cantonese, simp.]

     hou² coi² jau⁵ go³ caai¹ jan⁴ jyu⁶ zoek⁶ go³ caak^6-2, zit⁶ zyu⁶ keoi⁵, laai¹ keoi⁵ soeng⁵ daai⁶ gun² [Jyutping]

     Fortunately the thief met a constable, who stopped him, and took him up in arrest to the Central Police Station.

Etymology 2

Orthographic borrowing from Japanese 大館 (Ōdate).

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): Dàguǎn

  (Zhuyin): ㄉㄚˋ ㄍㄨㄢˇ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): daai⁶ gun²

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: Dàguǎn
    • Zhuyin: ㄉㄚˋ ㄍㄨㄢˇ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: Dàguǎn
    • Wade–Giles: Ta⁴-kuan³
    • Yale: Dà-gwǎn
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: Dahgoan
    • Palladius: Дагуань (Daguanʹ)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /tä⁵¹ ku̯än²¹⁴⁻²¹⁽⁴⁾/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
    • Jyutping: daai⁶ gun²
    • Yale: daaih gún
    • Cantonese Pinyin: daai⁶ gun²
    • Guangdong Romanization: dai⁶ gun²
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /taːi̯²² kuːn³⁵/

Proper noun

大館

1. (～市) Ōdate (a city in Akita Prefecture, Japan)