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大家

大家

Chinese

 
big; great; huge; large; major; wide; deep; oldest; eldest; doctor
 
home; family; -ist; -er; -ian; measure word for stores and schools
simp. and trad.
(大家)

Noun

大家

  1. everyone; everybody; all of us
    大家保持安靜 / 大家保持安静   Qǐng dàjiā bǎochí ānjìng.   Would everyone please keep quiet.
Synonyms
Dialectal synonyms of 大家 (“everyone; everybody”)
Variety Location Words
Classical Chinese 眾人
Formal (Written Standard Chinese) 大家
Mandarin Beijing 大家、大家夥兒、大夥兒
Taiwan 大家
Jinan 大夥兒
Xi'an 大家、大夥兒
Wuhan 大家
Chengdu 大家
Yangzhou 大家
Hefei 大家
Cantonese Guangzhou 大家
Hong Kong 大家
Taishan 仲家
Yangjiang 大家、齊家、大齊
Gan Nanchang 大家
Hakka Meixian 齊家、大齊家、大自家
Miaoli (N. Sixian) 大家、大自家、大家人
Liudui (S. Sixian) 大家、大家人
Hsinchu (Hailu) 大家、大自家、大家人
Dongshi (Dabu) 大家、大自家、大家人
Zhuolan (Raoping) 大家、大自家、大家人
Yunlin (Zhao'an) 大家
Jin Taiyuan 大家、大家夥兒
Min Bei Jian'ou 大家、大家人
Min Dong Fuzhou 大家人、各人
Min Nan Quanzhou 大家
Xiamen 大家
Zhangzhou 逐家
Taipei 逐家
Kaohsiung 逐家
Malaysia 大家、甲了人
Chaozhou 大家
Wu Suzhou 大家
Wenzhou 大家人
Xiang Changsha 大家
Shuangfeng 大家、圞身
Derived terms

Pronunciation

Noun

大家

  1. rich and powerful family
    大家閨秀 / 大家闺秀   dàjiāguīxiù   unmarried daughter of a noble house
  2. master, great expert
    大家手筆 / 大家手笔   dàjiā shǒubǐ   handwriting of a great calligrapher

Pronunciation

 
big; great; huge; large; major; wide; deep; oldest; eldest; doctor
 
home; family; -ist; -er; -ian; measure word for stores and schools
simp. and trad.
(大家)
alt. forms 乾家干家 Min Nan
唐家 Min Nan

Noun

大家

  1. (literary) Alternative form of 大姑 (dàgū, “respectful address for a woman”).
    大家   Cáo Dàgū   Madame Cao
  2. (Min Nan) mother-in-law (husband's mother)
Synonyms
  • (mother-in-law):
Dialectal synonyms of 婆婆 (“husband's mother; mother-in-law”)
Variety Location Words
Formal (Written Standard Chinese) 婆婆
Mandarin Beijing 婆婆
Taiwan 婆婆
Jinan 婆婆
Xi'an
Wuhan 婆婆
Chengdu 老人婆
Yangzhou
Hefei 婆婆老婆婆
Cantonese Guangzhou 家婆奶奶
Hong Kong 家婆奶奶
Taishan 家婆
Yangjiang 家婆
Gan Nanchang 、婆子
Hakka Meixian 家娘
Xingning 家娘
Huidong (Huizhou) 家娘
Qujiang 家娘婆
Xiaosanjiang 家婆
Changting 家娘
Pingyu 家娘
Wuping 家娘
Liancheng 家娘
Ninghua 家婆
Ruijin 家婆奶奶
Shicheng 家婆
Shangyou 家婆
Miaoli (N. Sixian) 家娘
Liudui (S. Sixian) 家娘
Hsinchu (Hailu) 家娘
Dongshi (Dabu) 家娘
Zhuolan (Raoping) 家娘
Yunlin (Zhao'an) 家婆
Jin Taiyuan 婆婆
Min Bei Jian'ou 嫲嫲
Min Dong Fuzhou 大家
Min Nan Quanzhou 大家
Xiamen 大家
Zhangzhou 大家
Taipei 大家
Kaohsiung 大家
Tainan 大家
Taichung 大家
Yilan 大家仔
Lukang 大家
Sanxia 大家
Kinmen 親姆
Magong 大家
Hsinchu 大家
Malaysia
Chaozhou 大家
Wu Suzhou 阿婆
Wenzhou 大家娘
Xiang Changsha 家娘
Shuangfeng 家娘

References


Japanese

Kanji in this term
おお
Grade: 1

Grade: 2
kun'yomi

Noun

大家 (hiragana おおや, romaji ōya)

  1. a landlord or landlady, the owner of a rented apartment

References

  • 2002, Ineko Kondō; Fumi Takano; Mary E Althaus; et. al., Shogakukan Progressive Japanese-English Dictionary, Third Edition, Tokyo: Shōgakukan, ISBN 4095102535.