大吉

Chinese

		big; great; huge big; great; huge; large; major; wide; deep; oldest; eldest; doctor	lucky; Jilin Province (abbrev.)
simp. and trad. (大吉)		大	吉
anagram		吉大

Pronunciation

Mandarin
(Pinyin): dàjí

(Zhuyin): ㄉㄚˋ ㄐㄧˊ
Cantonese (Jyutping): daai⁶ gat¹
Min Nan (POJ): tāi-kiat

Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese)⁺
  - Pinyin: dàjí
  - Zhuyin: ㄉㄚˋ ㄐㄧˊ
  - Gwoyeu Romatzyh: dahjyi
  - IPA ^(key): /tä⁵¹ t͡ɕi³⁵/
Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)⁺
  - Jyutping: daai⁶ gat¹
  - Yale: daaih gāt
  - Cantonese Pinyin: daai⁶ gat⁷
  - Guangdong Romanization: dai⁶ ged¹
  - IPA ^(key): /täːi̯²² kɐt̚⁵/
Min Nan
- (Hokkien)
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī: tāi-kiat
  - Tâi-lô: tāi-kiat
  - Phofsit Daibuun: daixkiad
  - IPA (Xiamen): /taɪ²²⁻²¹ kiɛt̚³²/
  - IPA (Quanzhou): /taɪ⁴¹⁻²² kiɛt̚⁵/
  - IPA (Zhangzhou): /taɪ²²⁻²¹ kiɛt̚³²/
  - IPA (Taipei): /taɪ³³⁻¹¹ kiɛt̚³²/
  - IPA (Kaohsiung): /taɪ³³⁻²¹ kiɛt̚³²/

Adjective

大吉

(literary) very auspicious; extremely lucky
used humorously after a verb or a verbal phrase (The addition of quotations indicative of this usage is being sought):

Derived terms

大吉大利 (dàjídàlì)
溜之大吉
百事大吉
萬事大吉／万事大吉

開市大吉／开市大吉
開張大吉／开张大吉
關門大吉／关门大吉 (guānméndàjí)

Japanese

Kanji in this term
大	吉
だい Grade: 1	きち Grade: S
on’yomi

Pronunciation

On’yomi
- (Tokyo) だいきち [dàíkíchí] (Heiban – [0])[1]
- IPA^(key): [da̠ikʲit͡ɕi]

Noun

大吉 (hiragana だいきち, rōmaji daikichi, historical hiragana だいきち)

(fortune-telling) very lucky

Antonyms

大凶 (だいきょう) (daikyō)

References

2006, 大辞林 (Daijirin), Third Edition (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Sanseidō, →ISBN

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