大出血

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Chinese

big; great; huge
big; great; huge; large; major; wide; deep; oldest; eldest; doctor
 
 to bleed; to haemorrhage; to pay a large amount of money for something
simp. and trad.
(大出血) 		大 出血

Pronunciation

Verb

大出血

  1. (medicine) to hemorrhage profusely; to bleed heavily
  2. (figurative) to lose or spend large amounts of valuable resources; (of a business) to have a big sale (despite losing money from it)

Japanese

Kanji in this term
大 出 血
だい
Grade: 1 		しゅつ > しゅっ
Grade: 1 		けつ
Grade: 3
on'yomi

Etymology

From 大 (dai-, “great, big”) +‎ 出血 (shukketsu, “bleeding, hemorrhage”).

Pronunciation

Noun

大(だい)出(しゅっ)血(けつ) • (daishukketsu) 

  1. (medicine) major hemorrhaging, massive bleeding, flooding
  2. (idiomatic) a big sale

Synonyms

References

  1. ^ Shōgaku Tosho (1988) 国語大辞典（新装版） (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Shogakukan, →ISBN
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