大辞典

Japanese

Kanji in this term
大	辞	典
だい Grade: 1	じ Grade: 4	てん Grade: 4
on'yomi

Alternative spellings
大辭典 (kyūjitai) 大字典

Etymology

Compound of 大(だい) (dai, “large; great”) + 辞典(じてん) (jiten, “dictionary”).

Pronunciation

(Tokyo) だいじてん [dàíjíꜜtèǹ] (Nakadaka – [3])^[1]
IPA^(key): [da̠iʑitẽ̞ɴ]

Noun

大(だい)辞(じ)典(てん) • (daijiten)

[from 1891^[1]] a large-scale and supreme quality dictionary
日本(にほん)国語(こくご)大辞典(だいじてん)
Nihon Kokugo Daijiten
Unabridged Dictionary of Japanese

Proper noun

大(だい)辞(じ)典(てん) • (Daijiten)

大字典: a Chinese-Japanese dictionary published in 1917
a 26 volume monolingual Japanese dictionary published around 1934-1936, with around 700,000 entries

References

↑ ^1.0 ^1.1 Nihon Kokugo Daijiten Dai-ni-han Henshū I'inkai (日本国語大辞典第二版編集委員会) (2001-2002) 日本国語大辞典　第二版 [Unabridged Japanese Dictionary: Second Edition], Tokyo (東京都): Shōgakukan (小学館), →ISBN