大巴

Chinese

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): dàbā

  (Zhuyin): ㄉㄚˋ ㄅㄚ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): daai⁶ baa¹
• Southern Min (Teochew, Peng'im): dua⁷ ba¹
• Wu (Shanghai, Wugniu): ⁶da-pa

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: dàbā
    • Zhuyin: ㄉㄚˋ ㄅㄚ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: dàba
    • Wade–Giles: ta⁴-pa¹
    • Yale: dà-bā
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: dahba
    • Palladius: даба (daba)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /tä⁵¹ pä⁵⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
    • Jyutping: daai⁶ baa¹
    • Yale: daaih bā
    • Cantonese Pinyin: daai⁶ baa¹
    • Guangdong Romanization: dai⁶ ba¹
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /taːi̯²² paː⁵⁵/
• Southern Min
  • (Teochew)
    • Peng'im: dua⁷ ba¹
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī-like: tuā pa
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /tua¹¹ pa³³/
• Wu
  • (Northern: Shanghai)
    • Wugniu: ⁶da-pa
    • MiniDict: da^去 pa
    • Wiktionary Romanisation (Shanghai): ³da-pa
    • Sinological IPA (Shanghai): /da²² pa⁴⁴/

Etymology 1

		big; great; huge big; great; huge; large; major; wide; deep; oldest; eldest; doctor	bus (shortening of 巴士 (bāshì))
simp. and trad. (大巴)		大	巴

Noun

大巴

1. (informal or dialectal) large bus; coach

   Synonym: 大巴車／大巴车

Synonyms

• 大客車／大客车 (dàkèchē)

Etymology 2

		big; great; huge big; great; huge; large; major; wide; deep; oldest; eldest; doctor	placename
simp. and trad. (大巴)		大	巴

From the ancient state of Ba in Sichuan.

Proper noun

大巴

1. (～山) Daba Mountains in northern Sichuan and southern Shaanxi, south of the valley of the Han River