大人

大人

1. adult; grown-up

   萬聖節裝扮不是大人的專利，那些拍門討糖果的小孩裝扮也可以十分出色！ [MSC, trad.]
   万圣节装扮不是大人的专利，那些拍门讨糖果的小孩装扮也可以十分出色！ [MSC, simp.]

   Wànshèngjié zhuāngbàn bùshì dàrén de zhuānlì, nàxiē pāi mén tǎo tángguǒ de xiǎohái zhuāngbàn yě kěyǐ shífēn chūsè! [Pinyin]

   Halloween costumes are not just for adults - the costumes of children who ask for candy can also be extraordinary!

• 成人 (chéngrén)

Reborrowed from Japanese 大人 (taijin) for the historical Min Nan sense.

大人

1. (honorific) Your Excellency; His Excellency (form of address to a higher-up)
2. (Taiwanese Hokkien, dated or regional) sir (form of address used by ordinary citizens to address police officers during Taiwan's Japanese era)
3. (Xiamen, Quanzhou Min Nan, religion) paper person, used as a scapegoat

• 小人 (xiǎorén)

• Iûⁿ, Ún-giân (2006), “Query for 大人”, in 台文/華文線頂辭典 [On-line Taiwanese/Mandarin Dictionary (Tai-gi Hôa-gí Sòaⁿ-téng Sû-tián)] (in Chinese and Min Nan).
• “Entry #221”, in 臺灣閩南語常用詞辭典 [Dictionary of Frequently-Used Taiwan Minnan] (in Chinese and Min Nan), Ministry of Education, R.O.C., 2011.

From late Old Japanese, more specifically Early Middle Japanese.[1] Appears in sources from the Heian period. Derivation unknown. Possibly related to obsolete verb おとなう (otonau, “to visit someone; to make a sound, to speak aloud”).

The spelling is jukujikun (熟字訓).

• 乙名 (only for the leader senses)

• (Irregular reading)
  • (Tokyo) おとな [òtóná] (Heiban – [0])[2][3]
  • IPA^(key): [o̞to̞na̠]

大人 (hiragana おとな, rōmaji otona)

1. an adult, a grown-up
   • 2010 December 8, Sorachi, Hideaki, “第だい三百二十二訓くん　二に度どあることは三さん度どある [Lesson 322: Twice, Thrice That There Are]”, in 銀ぎん魂たま [Silver Soul], volume 37 (fiction), Tokyo: Shueisha, →ISBN:

     まずはこのローションをかぶってだな

     Mazu wa kono rōshon o kabutte da na

     First we slap on some lotion

     ちょっと待 (ま)てぇぇぇ‼　それどこの大人 (おとな)のプールぅ⁉

     Chotto matēē‼ Sore doko no otona no pūrū⁉

     Hold o-o-o-on‼ Are you tryna turn this place into an adult pool!?

2. (uncommon, possibly archaic) a leader:
   1. an elder of a group or community
   2. in the late Muromachi period, the representative of a village or guild
   3. the head lady-in-waiting
   4. one's wife
   5. in the Edo period, a kind of civil servant working in Nagasaki
   6. the head servant

From Old Japanese.[1] Appears in the Nihon Shoki, completed in 720 CE. Derivation unknown.

• 卿

• (Irregular reading)
  • (Tokyo) う​し [úꜜshì] (Atamadaka – [1])[2][3]
  • IPA^(key): [ɯ̟ᵝɕi]

大人 (hiragana うし, rōmaji ushi)

1. (honorific) a lord, a landowner
2. an honorific form of reference for a scholar or teacher, or one's own father
3. an honorific form of reference for the addressee

From Middle Chinese 大人 (dɑi^H ȵʑjen, literally “big, great + person”). Compare modern Cantonese reading daai⁶ jan⁴, Min Nan tāi-jîn.

The kan'on reading, so likely a later borrowing.

• On’yomi: Kan’on
  • (Tokyo) たいじん [tàíjíń] (Heiban – [0])[2][3]
  • IPA^(key): [ta̠iʑĩɴ]

大人 (hiragana たいじん, rōmaji taijin)

1. a large person
2. a giant
3. an adult
4. a person of high rank, a ruler or noble
5. an honorific form of reference for a scholar or teacher, or one's own parent
6. a daimyo

From Middle Chinese 大人 (dɑi^H ȵiɪn, literally “big, great + person”). Compare modern Hakka reading thai-ngìn.

The goon reading, so likely an earlier borrowing.

• On’yomi: Goon
  • (Tokyo) だいにん [dàíníń] (Heiban – [0])[2][3]
  • IPA^(key): [da̠iɲ̟ĩɴ]

大人 (hiragana だいにん, rōmaji dainin)

1. an adult, a grown-up
2. (Buddhism) the Buddhas and bodhisattvas

大人 • (daein) (hangeul 대인)

1. Hanja form^? of 대인 (“adult”).
2. noble man, gentleman, magnanimous man

大人 (hiragana うふっちゅ, romaji ufutchu)

1. adult

大人

1. Hán tự form of đại nhân (“noble man”).