大抵

Chinese

		big; great; huge big; great; huge; large; major; wide; deep; oldest; eldest; doctor	hold up; on the whole; push against hold up; on the whole; push against; to support; to resist; to reach; to arrive; mortgage
trad. (大抵)		大	抵
simp. ^#(大抵)		大	抵

Pronunciation

Mandarin
(Pinyin): dàdǐ

(Zhuyin): ㄉㄚˋ ㄉㄧˇ
Cantonese (Jyutping): daai⁶ dai²
Min Nan (POJ): tāi-tí

Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese)⁺
  - Pinyin: dàdǐ
  - Zhuyin: ㄉㄚˋ ㄉㄧˇ
  - Gwoyeu Romatzyh: dahdii
  - IPA ^(key): /tä⁵¹ ti²¹⁴⁻²¹⁽⁴⁾/
Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)⁺
  - Jyutping: daai⁶ dai²
  - Yale: daaih dái
  - Cantonese Pinyin: daai⁶ dai²
  - Guangdong Romanization: dai⁶ dei²
  - IPA ^(key): /täːi̯²² tɐi̯³⁵/
Min Nan
- (Hokkien)
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī: tāi-tí
  - Tâi-lô: tāi-tí
  - Phofsit Daibuun: daixdie
  - IPA (Xiamen): /taɪ²²⁻²¹ ti⁵³/
  - IPA (Quanzhou): /taɪ⁴¹⁻²² ti⁵⁵⁴/
  - IPA (Zhangzhou): /taɪ²²⁻²¹ ti⁵³/
  - IPA (Taipei): /taɪ³³⁻¹¹ ti⁵³/
  - IPA (Kaohsiung): /taɪ³³⁻²¹ ti⁴¹/

Adverb

大抵

Synonyms

(more or less): 大概 (dàgài), 大約／大约 (dàyuē), 大致 (dàzhì)

Japanese

Kanji in this term
大	抵
たい Grade: 1	てい Grade: S
on’yomi

Adverb

大抵 (hiragana たいてい, rōmaji taitei)

mostly, probably

Usage notes

The term is mainly written in hiragana (たいてい) and the kanji spelling is rarely encountered.

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