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大道

大道

Chinese

		big; great; huge big; great; huge; large; major; wide; deep; oldest; eldest; doctor	direction; way; method direction; way; method; road; path; principle; truth; reason; skill; Tao (of Taoism); a measure word; to say; to speak; to talk
simp. and trad. (大道)		大	道

Noun

大道

avenue (four-lane street)
boulevard (multi-lane arterial thoroughfare)

Pronunciation

Mandarin

(Pinyin): dàdào

(Zhuyin): ㄉㄚˋ ㄉㄠˋ
Cantonese (Jyutping): daai⁶ dou⁶
Min Nan (POJ): tōa-tō

Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese, Beijing)⁺
  - Pinyin: dàdào
  - Zhuyin: ㄉㄚˋ ㄉㄠˋ
  - Gwoyeu Romatzyh: dahdaw
  - IPA ^(key): /ta̠⁵¹⁻⁵³ tɑʊ̯⁵¹/
Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)⁺
  - Jyutping: daai⁶ dou⁶
  - Yale: daaih douh
  - Cantonese Pinyin: daai⁶ dou⁶
  - IPA ^(key): /tɑːi̯²² tou̯²²/
Min Nan
- (Hokkien)
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī: tōa-tō
  - Tâi-lô: tuā-tō
  - Phofsit Daibuun: doaxdoi
  - IPA (Xiamen): /tua²²⁻²¹ tɤ²²/
  - IPA (Quanzhou): /tua⁴¹⁻²² tɤ⁴¹/
  - IPA (Zhangzhou): /tua²²⁻²¹ tɤ²²/
  - IPA (Taipei): /tua³³⁻¹¹ to³³/
  - IPA (Kaohsiung): /tua³³⁻²¹ tɤ³³/