大東
Chinese
big; great; huge big; great; huge; large; major; wide; deep; oldest; eldest; doctor | east | ||
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trad. (大東) | 大 | 東 | |
simp. (大东) | 大 | 东 | |
anagram | 東大/东大 |
Etymology
- "Daitō"
Orthographic borrowing from Japanese 大東 (Daitō).
Pronunciation
Proper noun
大東
- (~村) Dadong (a village in Zhashan, Caidian district, Wuhan, Hubei, China)
- (~市) Daitō (a city in Ōsaka prefecture, Japan)
- (Korean Classical Chinese, honorific) Korea; Great Korea
- 惟我大東,自箕子設敎之後,世遠經殘,君子而不得聞大道之要,小人而不得蒙至治之澤者久矣。 [Korean Literary Sinitic, trad.]
- From: 《朝鮮王朝實錄》 (Journal of the Royal Secretariat), 1436
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