大班

大班

Chinese

		big; great; huge big; great; huge; large; major; wide; deep; oldest; eldest; doctor	team; class; rank team; class; rank; squad; a work shift; a measure word; surname
simp. and trad. (大班)		大	班

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): dàbān

  (Zhuyin): ㄉㄚˋ ㄅㄢ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): daai⁶ baan¹
• Min Nan (POJ): tōa-pan

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Pinyin: dàbān
    • Zhuyin: ㄉㄚˋ ㄅㄢ
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: dahban
    • IPA ^(key): /tä⁵¹ pän⁵⁵/
      
  • (Standard Chinese, erhua-ed)⁺
    • Pinyin: dàbānr
    • Zhuyin: ㄉㄚˋ ㄅㄢㄦ
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: dahbal
    • IPA ^(key): /tä⁵¹ pɑɻ⁵⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)⁺
    • Jyutping: daai⁶ baan¹
    • Yale: daaih bāan
    • Cantonese Pinyin: daai⁶ baan¹
    • Guangdong Romanization: dai⁶ ban¹
    • IPA ^(key): /täːi̯²² päːn⁵⁵/
• Min Nan
  • (Hokkien)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: tōa-pan
    • Tâi-lô: tuā-pan
    • Phofsit Daibuun: doaxpafn
    • IPA (Xiamen): /tua²²⁻²¹ pan⁴⁴/
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /tua⁴¹⁻²² pan³³/
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /tua²²⁻²¹ pan⁴⁴/
    • IPA (Taipei): /tua³³⁻¹¹ pan⁴⁴/
    • IPA (Kaohsiung): /tua³³⁻²¹ pan⁴⁴/

Noun

大班

1. the top grade in a kindergarten
2. (Cantonese) a senior business executive or entrepreneur operating in China; taipan
3. (Hokkien, dated) Peking opera

Synonyms

Dialectal synonyms of 京劇 (“Peking opera”) [map]
Variety	Location	Words edit
Formal (Written Standard Chinese)		京劇
Mandarin	Beijing	京劇, 京戲
	Taiwan	國劇, 京劇, 平劇, 京戲
	Harbin	京戲
	Jinan	京劇
	Muping	京劇
	Luoyang	京劇
	Jiedian	京劇
	Xi'an	京劇
	Xining	京戲
	Xuzhou	京戲, 大戲, 二黃戲 dated
	Yinchuan	京戲
	Lanzhou	京戲
	Ürümqi	京戲
	Wuhan	京戲
	Chengdu	京戲
	Guiyang	京劇, 京戲
	Liuzhou	京戲, 京劇
	Yangzhou	大戲
	Nanjing	京戲
Cantonese	Guangzhou	京劇
	Hong Kong	京劇
	Dongguan	京劇
Gan	Nanchang	京戲
	Lichuan	京戲
	Pingxiang	京戲
Hakka	Meixian	京劇
Huizhou	Jixi	京劇, 京戲
Jin	Taiyuan	京戲
	Xinzhou	京劇
Min Bei	Jian'ou	京戲
Min Dong	Fuzhou	京戲
Min Nan	Xiamen	京劇, 京班 dated, 大班 dated, 正音 dated
	Quanzhou	京劇, 京班 dated, 大班 dated
	Zhangzhou	京劇, 京班 dated, 大班 dated, 正音 dated
	Taipei	京戲, 正音
	Haikou	京戲
Pinghua	Nanning	京劇
Wu	Shanghai	京戲, 大戲 dated
	Suzhou	京戲, 大戲 dated
	Hangzhou	京戲
	Wenzhou	京戲
	Chongming	京戲
	Danyang	京戲, 大戲
	Jinhua	京劇
	Ningbo	京戲
Xiang	Changsha	京戲
	Loudi	京戲

Descendants

• English: taipan