大魚

大魚

Chinese

		big; great; huge big; great; huge; large; major; wide; deep; oldest; eldest; doctor	fish
trad. (大魚)		大	魚
simp. (大鱼)		大	鱼

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): dàyú

  (Zhuyin): ㄉㄚˋ ㄩˊ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): daai⁶ jyu^4-2

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)
    • Hanyu Pinyin: dàyú
    • Zhuyin: ㄉㄚˋ ㄩˊ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: dàyú
    • Wade–Giles: ta⁴-yü²
    • Yale: dà-yú
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: dahyu
    • Palladius: даюй (dajuj)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /tä⁵¹ y³⁵/
    • Homophones:

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• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)⁺
    • Jyutping: daai⁶ jyu^4-2
    • Yale: daaih yú
    • Cantonese Pinyin: daai⁶ jy^4-2
    • Guangdong Romanization: dai⁶ yu^4-2
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /taːi̯²² jyː²¹⁻³⁵/

Noun

大魚

1. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see 大,‎ 魚. ("big fish")
2. (figurative) a valuable person or thing that is being searched for
3. (Cantonese) bighead carp (Hypophthalmichthys nobilis)

Synonyms

Dialectal synonyms of 鱅魚 (“bighead carp”) [map]

Variety	Location	Words edit
Formal (Written Standard Chinese)		鱅, 鱅魚
Mandarin	Beijing	胖頭, 胖頭兒魚
	Tianjin	胖頭
	Chengde	胖頭魚
	Tangshan	胖頭魚
	Cangzhou	胖頭
	Baoding	胖頭魚
	Shijiazhuang	胖頭魚, 大頭魚
	Chifeng	大頭鰱子
	Hulunbuir (Hailar)	胖頭魚, 大頭魚
	Heihe	胖頭魚, 大頭鰱子
	Qiqihar	胖頭
	Harbin	胖頭魚, 胖頭
	Jiamusi	胖頭魚
	Baicheng	胖頭魚
	Changchun	胖頭
	Tonghua	胖頭
	Shenyang	胖頭魚, 鰱子
	Dandong	胖頭魚
	Jinzhou	胖頭魚
	Dalian	胖頭魚
	Yantai	大頭魚
	Yantai (Muping)	花鰱
	Qingdao	大頭魚
	Lijin	大頭鰱
	Zhucheng	大頭魚
	Jinan	胖頭魚, 大頭魚, 鰱子魚, 鰱子
	Jining	大頭魚
	Luoyang	大頭魚
	Shangqiu	胖頭魚
	Yuanyang	鰱魚
	Zhengzhou	鰱魚
	Lingbao	大頭魚
	Xinyang	胖頭
	Baihe	大頭鰱子
	Hanzhong	鰱魚
	Xi'an	鰱子兒魚
	Baoji	鰱魚
	Yinchuan	花鰱, 大頭鰱子
	Lanzhou	胖頭魚
	Hami	鰱魚
	Wuhan	胖頭魚, 鰱子魚
	Yichang	胖頭魚, 鰱子魚
	Xiangyang	大頭鰱子
	Tianmen	胖頭魚, 胖頭, 家魚
	Hong'an	胖頭, 花鰱
	Nanchong	白鰱
	Xichang	大頭鰱
	Zigong	鰱魚
	Chongqing	鰱巴䱶
	Zunyi	大頭鰱子
	Dali	大頭白鰱魚
	Kunming	白鰱魚
	Guilin	胖頭魚
	Liuzhou	胖頭魚, 大頭魚, 大頭鰱子
	Nanning (Wuming)	大頭魚
	Jishou	鰱魚
	Changde	鱅魚, 鰱子魚
	Anqing	胖頭
	Xuzhou	大頭魚, 大頭鰱子
	Fuyang	胖頭鰱子
	Wuhu	胖頭
	Yangzhou	大頭鰱子
	Lianyungang	胖頭魚, 大頭鰱子, 大頭鰱
	Lianshui	大頭鰱子
Nanjing	花鰱, 皂鰱, 大頭鰱, 大頭鰱子, 大頭魚
Hefei	胖頭鰱子
Nantong	草鰱
Cantonese	Guangzhou	大魚, 大頭魚, 大頭, 鱅魚
	Hong Kong	大魚
	Dongguan	鱅魚, 大頭鱅
Gan	Pingxiang	胖頭魚
Hakka	Meixian	鱅仔
	Yudu	鱅子
	Miaoli (N. Sixian)	大頭鰱
	Pingtung (Neipu; S. Sixian)	大頭鰱
	Hsinchu County (Zhudong; Hailu)	大頭鰱
	Taichung (Dongshi; Dabu)	大頭鰱
	Hsinchu County (Qionglin; Raoping)	大頭鰱
	Yunlin (Lunbei; Zhao'an)	大頭鰱
Huizhou	Jixi	胖頭
	Shexian	㞞胖頭
Jin	Taiyuan	胖頭魚
	Linfen	白鰱
	Changzhi	大頭魚
	Linhe	大頭鰱, 白鰱
	Jining	大頭鰱子
	Hohhot	胖頭魚
	Erenhot	面魚
	Pingshan	胖頭魚
	Handan	胖頭魚
Min Bei	Jian'ou	冇頭魚, 冇頭
Min Nan	Xiamen	大頭鰱
	Quanzhou	大頭鰱
	Zhangzhou	大頭鰱, 烏魴
	Singapore (Hokkien)	松魚
	Chaozhou	大頭鱅
	Shantou	大頭鱅, 鱅, 鱅魚
	Leizhou	大頭鱅, 大頭魚
	Wenchang	鱅魚
Southern Pinghua	Nanning (Tingzi)	大頭魚, 蟲魚
Wu	Shanghai	花鰱, 胖頭魚
	Shanghai (Chongming)	黃連頭
	Suzhou	花鰱
	Danyang	大頭魚, 花鰱
	Ningbo	胖頭魚
	Wenzhou	花鰱
	Jinhua	大頭魚, 松鰱, 松鰱頭
	Jinhua (Tangxi)	大頭松
Xiang	Changsha	鱅魚
	Loudi	鱅魚
	Jiangyong	大頭鰱魚

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Japanese

Etymology 1

Kanji in this term
大	魚
たい Grade: 1	ぎょ Grade: 2
kan’on

From Middle Chinese elements 大 (tai, “big, large”) +‎ 魚 (gyo, “fish”).

Pronunciation

• On’yomi: Kan’on
• (Tokyo) た​いぎょ [táꜜìgyò] (Atamadaka – [1])[1]
• IPA^(key): [ta̠iɡʲo̞]

Noun

大(たい)魚(ぎょ) • (taigyo) 

1. a big fish

Idioms

• 大(たい)魚(ぎょ)を逸(いっ)す (taigyo o issu, “to lose a big fish → to miss one's big chance”)

Compounds

• 大(おお)魚(な)船(ぶね) (ōnabune)

Etymology 2

Kanji in this term
大	魚
おお > お Grade: 1	うお Grade: 2
kun’yomi

/opo uwo/ → /opuwo/ → /oɸuwo/ → /owuwo/ → /ouo/

Regular descendant of Old Japanese 大魚 (opuwo), compound of 大 (opo) + 魚 (uwo)

Pronunciation

• Kun’yomi
• IPA^(key): [o̞ɯ̟ᵝo̞]

Noun

大(お)魚(うお) • (ouo) ^{←おふを (ofuwo)?}

1. This term needs a translation to English. Please help out and add a translation, then remove the text {{rfdef}}.

References

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

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Old Japanese

Etymology

/opo uwo/ → /opuwo/

Shift from a compound of 大 (opo-, “great, big”) +‎ 魚 (uwo, “fish”).[1][2]

Noun

大魚 (opuwo) (kana おふを)

1. a big fish
   • 720, Nihon Shoki (Empress Jingū, entry 5: ninth year of the tenth lunar month in winter)

     時飛廉起風、陽侯擧浪、海中大魚悉浮扶船。

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   • 733, Izumo-no-kuni Fudoki (Ou)

     詔而、童女离鉏所取而、大魚之支大衝別而、波多須々支穂振別而、三身之綱打挂而...

     mi₁ko₂to₂no₂ri-tamapi₁te, woto₂me₁ no₂ munasuki₁ to₂rasite, opuwo no₂ ki₁da tuki₁wake₂te, patasusuki₁ po puriwake₂te, mi₁tumi₂ no₂ tuna utikake₂te...

     So saying, he [Yatsukamizuomitsuno] took the wide spade shaped like a maiden's chest, thrust it into the land as though he had plunged it into the gill of a large fish, shook it about as if brandishing pampas grass and broke off a piece. Then he tied a three-ply rope around the land...[3]

Derived terms

• 大魚よし (opuwo yo₂si, pillow word)

Descendants

• Japanese: 大魚 (ouo)

References

1. 1988, 国語大辞典（新装版） (Kokugo Dai Jiten, Revised Edition) (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Shogakukan
2. 2006, 大辞林 (Daijirin), Third Edition (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Sanseidō, →ISBN
3. Michiko Yamaguchi Aoki (1997) Records of wind and earth: a translation of Fudoki, with introduction and commentaries (Issue 53 of Monograph and occasional paper series), original from the University of Michigan, Association for Asian Studies, →ISBN, page 81