大酒店
Chinese
big; great; huge big; great; huge; large; major; wide; deep; oldest; eldest; doctor |
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| trad. (大酒店) | 大 | 酒店 | |
| simp. #(大酒店) | 大 | 酒店 | |
| Literally: “big hotel”. | |||
Etymology
- “funeral parlor”
- Everyone has to stay at the funeral parlour for a night after death, just like what living people do at a hotel.
Pronunciation
- Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)+
- Jyutping: daai6 zau2 dim3
- Yale: daaih jáu dim
- Cantonese Pinyin: daai6 dzau2 dim3
- Guangdong Romanization: dai6 zeo2 dim3
- Sinological IPA (key): /taːi̯²² t͡sɐu̯³⁵ tiːm³³/
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)+
Noun
大酒店
- (Hong Kong Cantonese, euphemistic) funeral home; funeral parlor