大半

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Chinese

		big; great; huge big; great; huge; large; major; wide; deep; oldest; eldest; doctor	half; semi-; incomplete half; semi-; incomplete; (after a number) and a half
simp. and trad. (大半)		大	半
anagram		半大

Pronunciation

Mandarin
(Pinyin): dàbàn

(Zhuyin): ㄉㄚˋ ㄅㄢˋ
Cantonese (Jyutping): daai⁶ bun³
Southern Min (Hokkien, POJ): tōa-pòaⁿ

Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese)⁺
  - Hanyu Pinyin: dàbàn
  - Zhuyin: ㄉㄚˋ ㄅㄢˋ
  - Tongyong Pinyin: dàbàn
  - Wade–Giles: ta⁴-pan⁴
  - Yale: dà-bàn
  - Gwoyeu Romatzyh: dahbann
  - Palladius: дабань (dabanʹ)
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /tä⁵¹⁻⁵³ pän⁵¹/
Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
  - Jyutping: daai⁶ bun³
  - Yale: daaih bun
  - Cantonese Pinyin: daai⁶ bun³
  - Guangdong Romanization: dai⁶ bun³
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /taːi̯²² puːn³³/
Southern Min
- (Hokkien)
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī: tōa-pòaⁿ
  - Tâi-lô: tuā-puànn
  - Phofsit Daibuun: doaxpvoax
  - IPA (Xiamen): /tua²²⁻²¹ puã²¹/
  - IPA (Quanzhou): /tua⁴¹⁻²² puã⁴¹/
  - IPA (Zhangzhou): /tua²²⁻²¹ puã²¹/
  - IPA (Taipei): /tua³³⁻¹¹ puã¹¹/
  - IPA (Kaohsiung): /tua³³⁻²¹ puã²¹/

Noun

大半

more than half; the greater part

Synonyms

多半 (duōbàn)

Derived terms

Descendants

Sino-Xenic (大半):

→ Japanese: 大半(たいはん) (taihan)
→ Korean: 대반(大半) (daeban)

Adverb

大半

very likely; most probably

Synonyms

博濟 / 博济 (Zhangzhou Hokkien)
多半 (duōbàn)
多半兒 / 多半儿 (duōbànr) (Beijing Mandarin)
大概 (dàgài)
大約 / 大约 (dàyuē)
大約摸 / 大约摸 (dàyuēmō) (colloquial)
想必 (xiǎngbì)
無慮 / 无虑 (wúlǜ) (literary)

Japanese

Kanji in this term
大	半
たい Grade: 1	はん Grade: 2
on'yomi

Pronunciation

(Tokyo) たいはん (Heiban – )^[1]^[2]^[3]
(Tokyo) たいはん (Nakadaka – )^[1]^[2]^[3]
IPA^(key):

Noun

大(たい)半(はん) • (taihan)

the greater part, most of
Synonyms: 過半 (kahan), 大部分 (daibubun), 大方 (ōkata), たいてい (taitei)

References

↑ ^1.0 ^1.1 Matsumura, Akira, editor (2006), 大辞林 [Daijirin] (in Japanese), Third edition, Tokyo: Sanseidō, →ISBN
↑ ^2.0 ^2.1 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), Tokyo: NHK Publishing, Inc., →ISBN
↑ ^3.0 ^3.1 Kindaichi, Kyōsuke et al., editors (1997), 新明解国語辞典 [Shin Meikai Kokugo Jiten] (in Japanese), Fifth edition, Tokyo: Sanseidō, →ISBN

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