大津
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Chinese[edit]
big; great; huge big; great; huge; large; major; wide; deep; oldest; eldest; doctor |
Tianjin; ferry | ||
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simp. and trad. (大津) |
大 | 津 |
Etymology[edit]
Orthographic borrowing from Japanese 大津 (Ōtsu).
Pronunciation[edit]
Proper noun[edit]
大津
Japanese[edit]
Kanji in this term | |
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大 | 津 |
おお Grade: 1 |
つ Grade: S |
kun’yomi |
Etymology[edit]
Compound of 大 (ō, “big, large”) + 津 (tsu, “harbor, port”).[1]
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
- a large port or harbor
- a type of mud used as an overcoat for an earthen or mud wall, named for the town of Ōtsu where it was produced
- short for 大津馬 (Ōtsu uma), a stage horse from the town of Ōtsu
Proper noun[edit]
- Ōtsu (the capital city of Shiga Prefecture), an important port on Lake Biwa
- the name of various other places in Japan
- a surname
References[edit]
- ^ Shōgaku Tosho (1988) 国語大辞典(新装版) [Unabridged Dictionary of Japanese (Revised Edition)] (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Shogakukan, →ISBN
- ^ NHK Broadcasting Culture Research Institute, editor (1998), NHK日本語発音アクセント辞典 [NHK Japanese Pronunciation Accent Dictionary] (in Japanese), Tōkyō: NHK Publishing, →ISBN
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