大踏步

Chinese

		big; great; huge big; great; huge; large; major; wide; deep; oldest; eldest; doctor	to march in place; to mark time
simp. and trad. (大踏步)		大	踏步

Pronunciation

Mandarin
(Pinyin): dàtàbù

(Zhuyin): ㄉㄚˋ ㄊㄚˋ ㄅㄨˋ
Cantonese (Jyutping): daai⁶ daap⁶ bou⁶

Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese)⁺
  - Hanyu Pinyin: dàtàbù
  - Zhuyin: ㄉㄚˋ ㄊㄚˋ ㄅㄨˋ
  - Tongyong Pinyin: dàtàbù
  - Wade–Giles: ta⁴-tʻa⁴-pu⁴
  - Yale: dà-tà-bù
  - Gwoyeu Romatzyh: dahtahbuh
  - Palladius: датабу (databu)
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /tä⁵¹⁻⁵³ tʰä⁵¹⁻⁵³ pu⁵¹/
Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
  - Jyutping: daai⁶ daap⁶ bou⁶
  - Yale: daaih daahp bouh
  - Cantonese Pinyin: daai⁶ daap⁹ bou⁶
  - Guangdong Romanization: dai⁶ dab⁶ bou⁶
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /taːi̯²² taːp̚² pou̯²²/

Verb

大踏步

(usually adverbial) in big strides
- 日本帝國主義就利用這個最根本的弱點，大踏步地打了進來。 [MSC, trad.]
  日本帝国主义就利用这个最根本的弱点，大踏步地打了进来。 [MSC, simp.]
  From: 1940, 毛澤東 (Mao Zedong), 《新民主主義論》 (On New Democracy), 《毛澤東選集》. English translation based on the Foreign Languages Press edition
  Rìběn dìguózhǔyì jiù lìyòng zhège zuì gēnběn de ruòdiǎn, dàtàbù de dǎ le jìnlái. [Pinyin]
  And the Japanese imperialists have exploited this fundamental weakness to stride into our country.