大出血

Chinese

 
big; great; huge; large; major; wide; deep; oldest; eldest; doctor
to bleed; to haemorrhage; to pay a large amount of money for something
simp. and trad.
(大出血)
出血

Pronunciation


Verb

大出血

  1. (medicine) to hemorrhage profusely; to bleed heavily
  2. (figuratively) to lose or spend large amounts of valuable resources; (of a business) to have a big sale (despite losing money from it)

Japanese

Kanji in this term
だい
Grade: 1
しゅつ > しゅっ
Grade: 1
けつ
Grade: 3
on’yomi

Etymology

From (dai, great, big) + 出血 (shukketsu, bleeding, hemorrhage).[1]

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [da̠iɕɨᵝk̚ke̞t͡sɨᵝ]

Noun

大出血 (hiragana だいしゅっけつ, rōmaji daishukketsu)

  1. (medicine) major hemorrhaging, massive bleeding, flooding
  2. (idiomatic) a big sale

Synonyms

  • 大量出血 (たいりょうしゅっけつ) (tairyō shukketsu)

References

  1. 1988, 国語大辞典(新装版) (Kokugo Dai Jiten, Revised Edition) (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Shogakukan
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