大腿

大腿

Chinese

		big; great; huge big; great; huge; large; major; wide; deep; oldest; eldest; doctor	leg
simp. and trad. (大腿)		大	腿
Literally: “large leg”.

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): dàtuǐ

  (Zhuyin): ㄉㄚˋ ㄊㄨㄟˇ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): daai⁶ teoi²
• Hakka (Sixian, PFS): thai-thúi
• Min Nan (POJ): tōa-thúi

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Pinyin: dàtuǐ
    • Zhuyin: ㄉㄚˋ ㄊㄨㄟˇ
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: dahtoei
    • IPA ^(key): /tä⁵¹ tʰu̯eɪ̯²¹⁴⁻²¹⁽⁴⁾/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)⁺
    • Jyutping: daai⁶ teoi²
    • Yale: daaih téui
    • Cantonese Pinyin: daai⁶ toey²
    • Guangdong Romanization: dai⁶ têu²
    • IPA ^(key): /täːi̯²² tʰɵy̯³⁵/
• Hakka
  • (Sixian, incl. Miaoli and Meinong)
    • Pha̍k-fa-sṳ: thai-thúi
    • Hakka Romanization System: tai tui`
    • Hagfa Pinyim: tai⁴ tui³
    • IPA: /tʰai̯⁵⁵ tʰu̯i³¹/
• Min Nan
  • (Hokkien)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: tōa-thúi
    • Tâi-lô: tuā-thuí
    • Phofsit Daibuun: doaxtuie
    • IPA (Xiamen): /tua²²⁻²¹ tʰui⁵³/
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /tua⁴¹⁻²² tʰui⁵⁵⁴/
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /tua²²⁻²¹ tʰui⁵³/
    • IPA (Taipei): /tua³³⁻¹¹ tʰui⁵³/
    • IPA (Kaohsiung): /tua³³⁻²¹ tʰui⁴¹/

Noun

大腿

1. thigh

Synonyms

Dialectal synonyms of 大腿 (“thigh”) [map]
Variety	Location	Words edit
Classical Chinese		髀
Formal (Written Standard Chinese)		大腿
Mandarin	Beijing	大腿
	Taiwan	大腿
	Wuhan	大腿, 大胯
Cantonese	Guangzhou	大髀
	Hong Kong	大髀
	Taishan	大髀
Hakka	Miaoli (N. Sixian)	大腳髀, 腳髀
	Liudui (S. Sixian)	大腳髀, 腳髀, 大裸髀
	Hsinchu (Hailu)	大腳髀, 腳髀
	Dongshi (Dabu)	大腳髀, 腳髀
	Hsinchu (Raoping)	大腳髀, 腳髀
	Yunlin (Zhao'an)	大腳髀, 腳髀
Min Nan	Xiamen	大腿
	Taipei	大腿
	Kaohsiung	大腿
Wu	Shanghai	大腿, 大髈

Derived terms

大腿襪／大腿袜 (dàtuǐwà) 抱大腿 (bào dàtuǐ)

胳膊擰不過大腿／胳膊拧不过大腿

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Japanese

Kanji in this term
大	腿
だい Grade: 1	たい Hyōgaiji
on’yomi

Etymology

From Middle Chinese compound 大腿.

Pronunciation

• On’yomi
  • (Tokyo) だいたい [dàítáí] (Heiban – [0])[1]
  • IPA^(key): [da̠ita̠i]

Noun

大腿 (hiragana だいたい, rōmaji daitai)

1. thigh

Derived terms

• 大腿筋 (だいたいきん) (daitaikin)
• 大腿骨 (だいたいこつ) (daitaikotsu, “femur”)
• 大腿四頭筋 (だいたいしとうきん) (daitaishitōkin)

References

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

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Korean

Hanja in this term
大	腿

Noun

大腿 • (daetoe) (hangeul 대퇴)

1. Hanja form^? of 대퇴 (“thigh”).