Cantonese words starting with D

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Daegu Metropolitan City, capital of North Gyeongsang Province 慶尚北道|庆尚北道[Qing4 shang4 bei3 dao4] in east South Korea

there is a great deal of ... (typically followed by a bisyllabic word, as in 大有希望[da4 you3 xi1 wang4])

daai6 jau5 bei1 jik1

bringing great benefits (idiom); very useful; to help greatly

daai6 jau5 hei1 mong6

to stand a good chance; to have great hopes; to be promising

daai6 jau5 ho2 wai4

大有可為大有可为

with great prospects for the future (idiom); well worth doing

daai6 jau5 jan4 zoi6

there are plenty of such people

daai6 jau5 man4 zoeng1

some deeper meaning in this; there's sth behind all this

daai6 jau5 zaam2 wok6

大有斬獲大有斩获

Great gains; returns

daai6 jau5 zok3 wai4

大有作為大有作为

to accomplish much; to have a promising future

see 大冶市[Da4 ye3 Shi4]

boss; the big one

Daye, a county-level city in Huangshi City 黃石市|黄石市[Huang2 shi2 Shi4], Hubei

daai6 jeon6 faat3

大潤發大润发

RT Mart (supermarket chain)

aunt (mother's eldest sister)

overcoat; cloak

not paying attention

daai6 ji4 faa3 zi1

大姨媽大姨妈

mother's eldest sister (older than one's mother)

daai6 ji4 mou4 dong3

大而無當大而无当

grandiose but impractical (idiom)

daai6 ji5 doek3 muk6 niu5

大擬啄木鳥大拟啄木鸟

(bird species of China) great barbet (Psilopogon virens)

daai6 ji5 lung1

daai6 ji5 ngau4

adj; to describe a person who does not listen to the advice, or forget the beneficial or useful advice from others.

second year of university

righteousness; a woman's marriage

daai6 ji6 lam5 jin4

大義凜然大义凛然

devotion to righteousness that inspires reverence (idiom)

daai6 ji6 mit6 can1

大義滅親大义灭亲

to place righteousness before family (idiom); ready to punish one's own family if justice demands it

daai6 jik6 bat1 dou6

noun; treason and heresy

daai6 jin4 bat1 caam4

大言不慚大言不惭

to boast shamelessly

Daying county in Suining 遂寧|遂宁[Sui4 ning2], Sichuan

daai6 jing1 bok3 mat6 gun2

大英博物館大英博物馆

daai6 jing1 dai3 gwok3

大英帝國大英帝国

daai6 jing1 jyun6

大英縣大英县

Daying, a county in Suining City 遂寧市|遂宁市[Sui4 ning2 Shi4], Sichuan

daai6 jing1 lyun4 hap6 wong4 gwok3

大英聯合王國大英联合王国

daai6 jing4 koeng4 zi2 deoi3 zong6 gei1

大型強子對撞機大型强子对撞机

Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at CERN, Geneva, Switzerland

daai6 jip6 sing3 fai3 jim4

大葉性肺炎大叶性肺炎

lobar pneumonia

daai6 jit6 dou2 zou3

大熱倒灶大热倒灶

the most popularly predicted outcome turns out not as predicted

daai6 jit6 mun2

大熱門大热门

a hit; very popular

daai6 jit6 tin1 si4

大熱天時大热天时

during very hot days

daai6 jit6 zing3

大熱症大热症

noun; Typhoid Fever

abstract; main points

see 大姚縣|大姚县[Da4 yao2 Xian4]

high-profile rumormonger (esp. on a microblog)