大津

Chinese
 
big; great; huge
big; great; huge; large; major; wide; deep; oldest; eldest; doctor
 Tianjin; ferry
simp. and trad.
(大津)		 大 津

Etymology

Orthographic borrowing from Japanese 大津(おおつ) (Ōtsu).

Pronunciation

Proper noun

大津

  1. (～市) Ōtsu (a city in Shiga Prefecture, Japan)

Japanese
Kanji in this term
大 津
おお
Grade: 1		 つ
Grade: S
kun’yomi

Etymology

Compound of 大 (ō, “big, large”) +‎ 津 (tsu, “harbor, port”).[1]

Pronunciation

Noun

大(おお)津(つ) • (ōtsu) ←おほつ (ofotu)?

  1. a large port or harbor
  2. a type of mud used as an overcoat for an earthen or mud wall, named for the town of Ōtsu where it was produced
  3. short for 大津馬 (Ōtsu uma), a stage horse from the town of Ōtsu

Proper noun

大(おお)津(つ) • (Ōtsu) ←おほつ (ofotu)?

  1. Ōtsu (the capital city of Shiga Prefecture), an important port on Lake Biwa
  2. the name of various other places in Japan
  3. a surname

References
  1. Shōgaku Tosho (1988) 国語大辞典（新装版） [Unabridged Dictionary of Japanese (Revised Edition)] (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Shogakukan, →ISBN
  2. 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), Tōkyō: NHK Publishing, →ISBN
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