大館

Chinese

		big; great; huge big; great; huge; large; major; wide; deep; oldest; eldest; doctor	house; establishment
trad. (大館)		大	館
simp. (大馆)		大	馆

Pronunciation

Mandarin
(Pinyin): Dàguǎn

(Zhuyin): ㄉㄚˋ ㄍㄨㄢˇ
Cantonese (Jyutping): daai⁶ gun²

Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese)⁺
  - Hanyu Pinyin: Dàguǎn
  - Zhuyin: ㄉㄚˋ ㄍㄨㄢˇ
  - Tongyong Pinyin: Dàguǎn
  - Wade–Giles: Ta⁴-kuan³
  - Yale: Dà-gwǎn
  - Gwoyeu Romatzyh: Dahgoan
  - Palladius: Дагуань (Daguanʹ)
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /tä⁵¹ ku̯än²¹⁴⁻²¹⁽⁴⁾/
Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
  - Jyutping: daai⁶ gun²
  - Yale: daaih gún
  - Cantonese Pinyin: daai⁶ gun²
  - Guangdong Romanization: dai⁶ gun²
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /taːi̯²² kuːn³⁵/

Proper noun

大館

(Hong Kong, historical) the former Central Police Station
- 1902, James Dyer Ball, How to Speak Cantonese, second edition, Hongkong: Kelly & Walsh, pages 220–221:
  
  好彩有個差人遇着個賊、截住佢、拉佢上大館 [Cantonese, trad.]
  好彩有个差人遇着个贼、截住佢、拉佢上大馆 [Cantonese, simp.]
  hou² coi² jau⁵ go³ caai¹ jan⁴ jyu⁶ zoek³ go³ caak⁶, zit⁶ zyu⁶ keoi⁵, laai¹ keoi⁵ soeng⁵ daai⁶ gun² [Jyutping]
  Fortunately the thief met a constable, who stopped him, and took him up in arrest to the Central Police Station.

Etymology 2

Orthographic borrowing from Japanese 大館 (Ōdate).

Pronunciation

Mandarin
(Pinyin): Dàguǎn

(Zhuyin): ㄉㄚˋ ㄍㄨㄢˇ
Cantonese (Jyutping): daai⁶ gun²

Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese)⁺
  - Hanyu Pinyin: Dàguǎn
  - Zhuyin: ㄉㄚˋ ㄍㄨㄢˇ
  - Tongyong Pinyin: Dàguǎn
  - Wade–Giles: Ta⁴-kuan³
  - Yale: Dà-gwǎn
  - Gwoyeu Romatzyh: Dahgoan
  - Palladius: Дагуань (Daguanʹ)
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /tä⁵¹ ku̯än²¹⁴⁻²¹⁽⁴⁾/
Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
  - Jyutping: daai⁶ gun²
  - Yale: daaih gún
  - Cantonese Pinyin: daai⁶ gun²
  - Guangdong Romanization: dai⁶ gun²
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /taːi̯²² kuːn³⁵/

Proper noun

大館

(～市) Ōdate (a city in Akita Prefecture, Japan)

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