大城

Chinese
 
big; great; huge
big; great; huge; large; major; wide; deep; oldest; eldest; doctor
 city walls; city; town
simp. and trad.
(大城)		 大 城
anagram 城大

Pronunciation 1

Proper noun

大城

  1. (～府) Phra Nakhon Si Ayutthaya (a province of Thailand)
  2. Phra Nakhon Si Ayutthaya (a city in Phra Nakhon Si Ayutthaya province, Thailand)
  3. (～王國) (historical) Ayutthaya Kingdom
  4. (～鄉) Dacheng (a rural township in Changhua County, Taiwan)
Synonyms

Pronunciation 2

Proper noun

大城

  1. (～縣) Daicheng (a county of Langfang, Hebei, China)

Japanese
Kanji in this term
大 城
おお
Grade: 1		 しろ
Grade: 4
kun’yomi

Etymology

Literally “great fortress”.

Pronunciation
  • (Tokyo) おおしろ [òóshíró] (Heiban – [0])[1]
  • IPA(key): [o̞ːɕiɾo̞]

Proper noun

大(おお)城(しろ) • (Ōshiro) ←おほしろ (Ofosiro)?

  1. a surname

References
  1. “おおしろ［おほしろ］ 【大城】”, in 日本国語大辞典 (Nihon Kokugo Daijiten, “Nihon Kokugo Daijiten”) Paid subscription required‎ (in Japanese), 2nd edition, Tōkyō: Shogakukan, 2000, released online 2007, →ISBN, concise edition entry available here (Note: Dialectal meanings, etymological theories, pronunciation including modern, dialectal, and historical information, Jōdai Tokushu Kanazukai, historical dictionaries containing this word, and the kanji spellings in those dictionaries have been omitted.)

Old Japanese

Etymology

Appears to be derived from a Baekje compound;[1] if so, possibly 鞬 (*k(j)ə-n, “big, great”) +‎ 城 (*sasi, “fortress”).

Pronunciation
  • (Tokyo) コニ​サシ [kòníꜜsàshì] (Nakadaka – [2])[1]
  • IPA(key): [ko̞ɲ̟isa̠ɕi]

Noun

大城 (*ko₂nisasi) (kana コニサシ)

  1. the capital of Baekje
    • 720, Nihon Shoki, Emperor Yūryaku (twentieth year of reign [c. 476 CE] in winter; Zushoryō-bon glosses):
      蓋鹵王乙卯年冬、狛大軍來攻レ大-城七日七夜...
      When Gaero was king on the Wood Rabbit year [475 CE] in winter, an army from Köma (Goryeo) came and attacked the great fortress [or capital] for seven days and seven nights.

Descendants
  • Japanese: 大城 (konisashi), in modern Japanese dictionaries

References
  1. “コニサシ 【大城】”, in 日本国語大辞典 (Nihon Kokugo Daijiten, “Nihon Kokugo Daijiten”) Paid subscription required‎ (in Japanese), 2nd edition, Tōkyō: Shogakukan, 2000, released online 2007, →ISBN, concise edition entry available here (Note: Dialectal meanings, etymological theories, pronunciation including modern, dialectal, and historical information, Jōdai Tokushu Kanazukai, historical dictionaries containing this word, and the kanji spellings in those dictionaries have been omitted.)
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