大賈

Chinese

		big; great; huge big; great; huge; large; major; wide; deep; oldest; eldest; doctor	merchant; to buy
trad. (大賈)		大	賈
simp. (大贾)		大	贾

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): dàgǔ

  (Zhuyin): ㄉㄚˋ ㄍㄨˇ

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)
    • Hanyu Pinyin: dàgǔ
    • Zhuyin: ㄉㄚˋ ㄍㄨˇ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: dàgǔ
    • Wade–Giles: ta⁴-ku³
    • Yale: dà-gǔ
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: dahguu
    • Palladius: дагу (dagu)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /tä⁵¹ ku²¹⁴⁻²¹⁽⁴⁾/
    • Homophones:

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• Middle Chinese: dajH|daH kuX

Rime
Character	大	大	賈
Reading #	1/2	2/2	1/3
Initial (聲)	定 (7)	定 (7)	見 (28)
Final (韻)	泰 (25)	歌 (94)	模 (23)
Tone (調)	Departing (H)	Departing (H)	Rising (X)
Openness (開合)	Open	Open	Open
Division (等)	I	I	I
Fanqie	徒蓋切	唐佐切	公戸切
Baxter	dajH	daH	kuX
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/dɑiH/	/dɑH/	/kuoX/
Pan Wuyun	/dɑiH/	/dɑH/	/kuoX/
Shao Rongfen	/dɑiH/	/dɑH/	/koX/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/dajH/	/daH/	/kɔX/
Li Rong	/dɑiH/	/dɑH/	/koX/
Wang Li	/dɑiH/	/dɑH/	/kuX/
Bernard Karlgren	/dʱɑiH/	/dʱɑH/	/kuoX/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	dài	duò	gǔ
Expected Cantonese Reflex	daai6	do6	gu2

• Old Chinese

  (Baxter–Sagart): /*lˤat-s|lˤa[t]-s  C.qˤaʔ/

  (Zhengzhang): /*daːds  klaːʔ/

Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	大	大	賈
Reading #	1/2	2/2	1/2
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	dà	dà	gǔ
Middle Chinese	‹ daH ›	‹ dajH ›	‹ kuX ›
Old Chinese	/*lˁat-s/ (MC F!)	/*lˁa[t]-s/	/*C.qˁaʔ/
English	big	big	merchant; do business
Notes for Old Chinese notations in the Baxter–Sagart system: * Parentheses "()" indicate uncertain presence; * Square brackets "[]" indicate uncertain identity, e.g. *[t] as coda may in fact be *-t or *-p; * Angle brackets "<>" indicate infix; * Hyphen "-" indicates morpheme boundary; * Period "." indicates syllable boundary.

Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character	大	大	賈
Reading #	1/2	2/2	3/3
No.	1934	1939	14205
Phonetic component	大	大	襾
Rime group	祭	祭	魚
Rime subdivision	1	1	0
Corresponding MC rime	䭾	大	古
Old Chinese	/*daːds/	/*daːds/	/*klaːʔ/

Noun

大賈

1. big merchant; wealthy merchant

Derived terms

• 富商大賈／富商大贾 (fùshāngdàgǔ)