大津

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Chinese

		big; great; huge big; great; huge; large; major; wide; deep; oldest; eldest; doctor	Tianjin; ferry
simp. and trad. (大津)		大	津

Wikipedia has an article on:

大津市

Etymology

Orthographic borrowing from Japanese 大津(おおつ) (Ōtsu).

Pronunciation

Mandarin
(Pinyin): Dàjīn

(Zhuyin): ㄉㄚˋ ㄐㄧㄣ
Cantonese (Jyutping): daai⁶ zeon¹

Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese)⁺
  - Hanyu Pinyin: Dàjīn
  - Zhuyin: ㄉㄚˋ ㄐㄧㄣ
  - Tongyong Pinyin: Dàjin
  - Wade–Giles: Ta⁴-chin¹
  - Yale: Dà-jīn
  - Gwoyeu Romatzyh: Dahjin
  - Palladius: Дацзинь (Daczinʹ)
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /tä⁵¹ t͡ɕin⁵⁵/
Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
  - Jyutping: daai⁶ zeon¹
  - Yale: daaih jēun
  - Cantonese Pinyin: daai⁶ dzoen¹
  - Guangdong Romanization: dai⁶ zên¹
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /taːi̯²² t͡sɵn⁵⁵/

Proper noun

大津

(～市) Ōtsu (a city in Shiga Prefecture, Japan)

Japanese

Japanese Wikipedia has an article on:

大津 (disambiguation)

Japanese Wikipedia has an article on:

大津市 (the city)

English Wikipedia has an article on:

Ōtsu, Shiga

大津 (Ōtsu): various views around the city of Ōtsu in Shiga Prefecture.

Kanji in this term
大	津
おお Grade: 1	つ Grade: S
kun'yomi

Etymology

Compound of 大 (ō, “big, large”) +‎ 津 (tsu, “harbor, port”).^[1]

Pronunciation

(Tokyo) おおつ (Atamadaka – )^[2]
IPA^(key):

Noun

大(おお)津(つ) • (ōtsu) ^{←おほつ (ofotu)^?}

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

大(おお)津(つ) • (Ōtsu) ^{←おほつ (Ofotu)^?}

Ōtsu (the capital city of Shiga Prefecture), an important port on Lake Biwa
the name of various other places in Japan
a surname

References

^ 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), Tokyo: NHK Publishing, Inc., →ISBN

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