大吉

大吉

Chinese

		big; great; huge big; great; huge; large; major; wide; deep; oldest; eldest; doctor	lucky; Jilin Province (abbrev.)
simp. and trad. (大吉)		大	吉
anagram		吉大

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Standard)

  (Pinyin): dàjí

  (Zhuyin): ㄉㄚˋ ㄐㄧˊ

  (Chengdu, SP): da⁴ ji²

• Cantonese

  (Guangzhou, Jyutping): daai⁶ gat¹

  (Taishan, Wiktionary): ai⁵ git²

• Hakka (Meixian, Guangdong): tai⁴ gid⁵
• Min Nan (POJ): tāi-kiat

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: dàjí
    • Zhuyin: ㄉㄚˋ ㄐㄧˊ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: dàjí
    • Wade–Giles: ta⁴-chi²
    • Yale: dà-jí
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: dahjyi
    • Palladius: дацзи (daczi)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /tä⁵¹ t͡ɕi³⁵/
  • (Chengdu)
    • Sichuanese Pinyin: da⁴ ji²
    • Scuanxua Ladinxua Xin Wenz: dagi
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /ta²¹³ t͡ɕi²¹/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)⁺
    • Jyutping: daai⁶ gat¹
    • Yale: daaih gāt
    • Cantonese Pinyin: daai⁶ gat⁷
    • Guangdong Romanization: dai⁶ ged¹
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /taːi̯²² kɐt̚⁵/
  • (Taishanese, Taicheng)
    • Wiktionary: ai⁵ git²
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /ai³² kit̚⁵⁵/
• Hakka
  • (Meixian)
    • Guangdong: tai⁴ gid⁵
    • Sinological IPA: /tʰaɪ⁵³⁻⁵⁵ cit̚¹/
• Min Nan
  • (Hokkien)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: tāi-kiat
    • Tâi-lô: tāi-kiat
    • Phofsit Daibuun: daixkiad
    • IPA (Xiamen): /tai²²⁻²¹ kiɛt̚³²/
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /tai⁴¹⁻²² kiɛt̚⁵/
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /tai²²⁻²¹ kiɛt̚³²/
    • IPA (Taipei): /tai³³⁻¹¹ kiɛt̚³²/
    • IPA (Kaohsiung): /tai³³⁻²¹ kiɛt̚³²/

Adjective

大吉

1. (literary) very auspicious; extremely lucky
2. used humorously after a verb or a verbal phrase (The addition of quotations indicative of this usage is being sought:)

Derived terms

大吉利市 大吉大利 (dàjídàlì) 溜之大吉 (liūzhīdàjí) 百事大吉 大吉嶺／大吉岭 (Dàjílǐng)

萬事大吉／万事大吉 開市大吉／开市大吉 開張大吉／开张大吉 關門大吉／关门大吉 (guānméndàjí)

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Japanese

Kanji in this term
大	吉
だい Grade: 1	きち Grade: S
on’yomi

Pronunciation

• On’yomi
• (Tokyo) だいきち [dàíkíchí] (Heiban – [0])[1]
• IPA^(key): [da̠ikʲit͡ɕi]

Noun

大(だい)吉(きち) • (daikichi) ^{←だいきち (daikiti)?}

1. (fortune-telling) very lucky

Antonyms

• 大凶(だいきょう) (daikyō)

References

1. 2006, 大辞林 (Daijirin), Third Edition (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Sanseidō, →ISBN