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| | big; great; hugebig; great; huge; large; major; wide; deep; oldest; eldest; doctor | mix together; peace; harmonymix together; peace; harmony; and; with; union; cap (a poem); respond in singing; soft; warm | | | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ | -------------------------------- | | simp. and trad.(大和) | | |



大和

  1. (Chinese history) an era during the Tang dynasty, from 827 through 835 CE
  2. (Chinese history) an era during the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms period, from 929 through 935 CE
  3. (Vietnamese history) an era during the reign of Lê Nhân Tông, from 1443 through 1453
  4. (~) Dahe (a township in Bazhou district, Bazhong, Sichuan, China)

Orthographic borrowing from Japanese 大和(やまと) (Yamato).

大和

  1. Yamato (ancient name for Japan)
  2. (~) Yamato (a city in Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan)
  3. (~) Yamato Province, a former province in Japan, generally equivalent Nara Prefecture
  4. An orthographic borrowing of the Japanese surname 大和, Yamato
Kanji in this term
やまと
Grade: 1 Grade: 3
jukujikun
Alternative spellings

⟨yamato2⟩: *[jamatə] → /jamato/

From older 邪馬台 (yamatai). From Old Japanese 大和 (yamato2), from Proto-Japonic *yamatə. Originally a geographical region in Nara, came to refer to all of Nara, and eventually to the country as a whole: Japan.

Chinese texts often used the word (“dwarf, midget”) to refer to the people of the Japanese archipelago, possibly because they were actually smaller, or more likely as an insult. This character came to be used in early Japanese texts, such as the Man'yōshū poetry compilation, with a kun'yomi or native-Japanese reading of Yamato to refer to Japan in general.

This character also has an on'yomi or borrowed Chinese reading of wa. During the reign of Empress Genmei (707–715), the character with an original Chinese meaning of “midget, dwarf” was replaced with the character that is also read wa, but instead has the more favorable meaning of “harmony”, in spellings of the native Japanese term Yamato. The character meaning “great” was then prefixed to this.[1] The resulting kanji compound 大和 can also be read with a kun'yomi of Ōyamato[2][3] (see below).

大和(やまと) (Yamato)

  1. a town in the Shikinoshimo district in the Yamato Province of Japan, generally equivalent to modern Tenri area
  2. A city in Kanagawa Prefecture
  3. one of the old provinces that made up Japan, generally equivalent to modern Nara prefecture
  4. the country of Japan
  5. 大和: a World War II battleship (Should we delete(+) this sense?)
  6. 大和: a male given name
  7. 大和: a surname

(Japan):

Kanji in this term
おおGrade: 1 やまとGrade: 3
kun'yomi irregular
Alternative spellings
大倭大日本

From Old Japanese. Found in the Man'yōshū, completed some time after 759 CE.[6]

Compound of (ō, “great, big”) +‎ 大和 (Yamato, “the ancient Yamato kingdom; Japan”). The kanji spelling is an example of ateji (当て字).

大(おお)和(やまと) (Ōyamato) ←**おほやまと** (Ofoyamato)?

  1. (historical) one of the old provinces that made up Japan, generally equivalent to modern Nara prefecture
  2. (poetic) the country of Japan
Kanji in this term
だいGrade: 1 Grade: 3
on'yomi

Appears to be a borrowing from Middle Chinese 大和 (MC dajH|daH hwa|hwaH).

大(だい)和() (Daiwa)

  1. an era in history:

    1. (Chinese history) an era during the Tang dynasty, from 827 through 835 CE
    2. (Chinese history) an era during the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms period, from 929 through 935 CE
    3. (Vietnamese history) an era during the reign of Lê Nhân Tông, from 1443 through 1453
  2. a place:

    1. A neighborhood of Takatsuki, Osaka Prefecture.
    2. A township in Bazhong, Sichuan, China.
  3. ^ Matsumura, Akira (1995) 大辞泉 [Daijisen] (in Japanese), First edition, Tokyo: Shogakukan, →ISBN

  4. ^ Shōgaku Tosho (1988) 国語大辞典(新装版) [Unabridged Dictionary of Japanese (Revised Edition)] (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Shogakukan, →ISBN

  5. ^ Matsumura, Akira, editor (2006), 大辞林 [Daijirin] (in Japanese), Third edition, Tokyo: Sanseidō, →ISBN

  6. ^ NHK Broadcasting Culture Research Institute, editor (1998), NHK日本語発音アクセント辞典 [NHK Japanese Pronunciation Accent Dictionary] (in Japanese), Tokyo: NHK Publishing, Inc., →ISBN

  7. ^ Hirayama, Teruo, editor (1960), 全国アクセント辞典 (Zenkoku Akusento Jiten, “Nationwide Accent Dictionary”) (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Tōkyōdō, →ISBN

  8. ^ , text here

Kanji in this term
Grade: 1 Grade: 3

From Proto-Ryukyuan *yamato, from Proto-Japonic *yamatə. Cognate with Japanese 大和(やまと) (Yamato).

大和(やまと゚ぅー) (Yamatū)

  1. Japan
Kanji in this term
Grade: 1 Grade: 3

From Proto-Ryukyuan *yamato, from Proto-Japonic *yamatə. Cognate with Japanese 大和(やまと) (Yamato).

大和(やまとぅ) (Yamatu)

  1. Japan
Kanji in this term
やまとぅ
Grade: 1 Grade: 3
jukujikun
Alternative spellings
日本

From Proto-Ryukyuan *yamato, from Proto-Japonic *yamatə. Cognate with mainland Japanese 大和 (Yamato).

大和(やまとぅ) (Yamatu)

  1. Japan, mainland Japan in contrast to Okinawa
  2. Satsuma, Japan
Kanji in this term
うふやまとぅ
Grade: 1 Grade: 3
jukujikun

大和(うふやまとぅ) (Ufuyamatu)

  1. Alternative form of 大大和 (“Japan, Mainland Japan in contrast to Okinawan”).
Kanji in this term
Grade: 1 Grade: 3

From Proto-Ryukyuan *yamato, from Proto-Japonic *yamatə. Cognate with Japanese 大和(やまと) (Yamato).

大和(やまとぅ) (Yamatu)

  1. Japan
Kanji in this term
Grade: 1 Grade: 3
Alternative spelling

From Proto-Ryukyuan *yamato, from Proto-Japonic *yamatə. Cognate with Japanese 大和(やまと) (Yamato).

大和(だまとぅ) (Damatu)

  1. Japan