"大王" meaning in Japanese

See 大王 in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Noun

IPA: [da̠io̞ː] Forms: 大王 [canonical] (ruby: (だい), (おう)), daiō [romanization], daiwau [romanization], だいわう [hiragana, historical]
Etymology: 大 (dai-, “great”) + 王 (ō, “king”), from Chinese 大王 Etymology templates: {{pre|ja|大|王|sort=たいおう'|t1=great|t2=king|tr1=dai|tr2=ō}} 大 (dai-, “great”) + 王 (ō, “king”), {{der|ja|zh|大王|sort=たいおう'}} Chinese 大王 Head templates: {{ja-noun|だいおう|hhira=だいわう}} 大(だい)王(おう) • (daiō) ^(←だいわう (daiwau)?)
  1. (monarchy) a "great king" (used in the titles of or as the term of address for some kings, and also as a translation of English "the Great")
    Sense id: en-大王-ja-noun-CB1598yW Categories (other): Japanese links with redundant wikilinks, Japanese terms with non-redundant non-automated sortkeys, Japanese terms with redundant script codes, Monarchy, Pages with 2 entries, Japanese entries with incorrect language header, Japanese links with redundant alt parameters, Japanese links with redundant wikilinks, Japanese terms prefixed with 大, Japanese terms with 2 kanji, Japanese terms with non-redundant non-automated sortkeys, Japanese terms with redundant sortkeys Disambiguation of Pages with 2 entries: 4 29 4 4 13 26 21 Disambiguation of Japanese entries with incorrect language header: 53 47 Disambiguation of Japanese links with redundant alt parameters: 57 43 Disambiguation of Japanese links with redundant wikilinks: 83 17 Disambiguation of Japanese terms prefixed with 大: 65 35 Disambiguation of Japanese terms with 2 kanji: 62 38 Disambiguation of Japanese terms with non-redundant non-automated sortkeys: 61 39 Disambiguation of Japanese terms with redundant sortkeys: 61 39 Topics: government, monarchy, politics
  2. (monarchy) a "great prince" (used in the titles of some ruling princes)
    Sense id: en-大王-ja-noun-sBR9UbnH Categories (other): Japanese terms with non-redundant non-automated sortkeys, Monarchy, Pages with 2 entries, Japanese entries with incorrect language header Disambiguation of Pages with 2 entries: 4 29 4 4 13 26 21 Disambiguation of Japanese entries with incorrect language header: 53 47 Topics: government, monarchy, politics
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Related terms: 大帝 (taitei) (ruby: (たい), (てい))
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Download raw JSONL data for 大王 meaning in Japanese (3.6kB)

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