大和

大和

1. (Chinese history) an era during the Tang dynasty, from 827 through 835 CE
2. (Chinese history) an era during the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms period, from 929 through 935 CE
3. (Vietnamese history) an era during the reign of Lê Nhân Tông, from 1443 through 1453
4. (～鄉) Dahe (a township in Bazhou district, Bazhong, Sichuan, China)

Orthographic borrowing from Japanese 大和(やまと) (yamato).

大和

1. Yamato (ancient name for Japan)
2. (～市) Yamato (a city in Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan)
3. (～號) (historical) Yamato (a World War II battleship)
4. (～級) Yamato class Battleship
5. (～國) Yamato Province, a former province in Japan, generally equivalent Nara Prefecture
6. An orthographic borrowing of the Japanese surname 大和, Yamato

• 日本 (Rìběn)
• 倭 (wō)

⟨yamato₂⟩: [jamatə] → /jamato/

From older 邪馬台 (yamatai). From Old Japanese 大和 (yamato₂), from Proto-Japonic *yamatə. Originally a geographical region in Nara, came to refer to all of Nara, and eventually to the country as a whole: Japan.

Chinese texts often used the word 倭 (“dwarf, midget”) to refer to the people of the Japanese archipelago, possibly because they were actually smaller, or more likely as an insult. This character came to be used in early Japanese texts, such as the Man'yōshū poetry compilation, with a kun'yomi or native-Japanese reading of Yamato to refer to Japan in general.

This 倭 character also has an on'yomi or borrowed Chinese reading of wa. During the reign of Empress Genmei (707–715), the 倭 character with an original Chinese meaning of “midget, dwarf” was replaced with the 和 character that is also read wa, but instead has the more favorable meaning of “harmony”, in spellings of the native Japanese term Yamato. The 和 character also has a kun'yomi of yawa, which would have been yaba in ancient times, suggesting another possible phonetic reason to use 和 to spell Yamato (on a softening of the “b”: yaba → yama). The 大 character meaning “great” was then prefixed to this.[1] The resulting kanji compound 大和 can also be read with a kun'yomi of Ōyamato[2][3] (see below).

• Kun’yomi
• (Tokyo) や​まと [yáꜜmàtò] (Atamadaka – [1])[4][5]
• IPA^(key): [ja̠ma̠to̞]

大和(やまと) • (Yamato) 

1. a town in the Shikinoshimo district in the Yamato Province of Japan, generally equivalent to modern Tenri area
2. A city in Kanagawa Prefecture
3. one of the old provinces that made up Japan, generally equivalent to modern Nara prefecture
4. the country of Japan
5. 大和: a World War II battleship
6. 大和: a male given name
7. 大和: a surname

• (Japan): 日本 (Nihon, Nippon)

• → Chinese: 大和 (Dàhé)

• 奈良(なら) (Nara)

From Old Japanese. Found in the Man'yōshū, completed some time after 759 CE.[6]

Compound of 大 (ō, “great, big”) +‎ 大和 (Yamato, “the ancient Yamato kingdom; Japan”). The kanji spelling is an example of ateji (当て字).

• (Irregular reading)
• IPA^(key): [o̞ːja̠ma̠to̞]

大(おお)和(やまと) • (Ōyamato) ^{←おほやまと (ofoyamato)?}

1. (historical) one of the old provinces that made up Japan, generally equivalent to modern Nara prefecture
2. (poetic) the country of Japan

• 奈良(なら) (Nara)

Appears to be a borrowing from Middle Chinese 大和 (MC dɑi^H|dɑ^H ɦuɑ|ɦuɑ^H).

• On’yomi
• IPA^(key): [da̠iɰᵝa̠]

大(だい)和(わ) • (Daiwa) 

1. an era in history:
   1. (Chinese history) an era during the Tang dynasty, from 827 through 835 CE
   2. (Chinese history) an era during the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms period, from 929 through 935 CE
   3. (Vietnamese history) an era during the reign of Lê Nhân Tông, from 1443 through 1453
2. a place:
   1. A neighborhood of Takatsuki, Osaka Prefecture.
   2. A township in Bazhong, Sichuan, China.

From Proto-Ryukyuan *yamato, from Proto-Japonic *yamatə. Cognate with Japanese 大和 (Yamato).

• IPA^(key): /jamatuː/

大和 (hiragana やまと゚ぅー, rōmaji Yamatū)

1. Japan

From Proto-Ryukyuan *yamato, from Proto-Japonic *yamatə. Cognate with Japanese 大和 (Yamato).

• IPA^(key): /jamatu/

大和 (hiragana やまとぅ, rōmaji Yamatu)

1. Japan

From Proto-Ryukyuan *yamato, from Proto-Japonic *yamatə. Cognate with mainland Japanese 大和 (Yamato).

• IPA^(key): /jamatu/

大和 (hiragana やまとぅ, rōmaji Yamatu)

1. Japan, mainland Japan in contrast to Okinawa
2. Satsuma, Japan

• Because 大和 (Yamatu) may also refer to Satsuma, 大大和 (Ufuyamatu) is used to clearly refer to mainland Japan in contrast to Okinawa.

大和 (hiragana うふやまとぅ, rōmaji Ufuyamatu)

1. Alternative form of 大大和 (“Japan, Mainland Japan in contrast to Okinawan”).

• “やまとぅ【大和・倭】” in JLect - Japonic Languages and Dialects Database Dictionary, 2019.
• 沖縄語辞典 (Okinawago Jiten, “Okinawan Dictionary”)‎, 1963
• “ヤマト（やまと）” in Okinawan Dialect Dictionary - Ajima.

From Proto-Ryukyuan *yamato, from Proto-Japonic *yamatə. Cognate with Japanese 大和 (Yamato).

• IPA^(key): /jamatu/

大和 (hiragana やまとぅ, rōmaji Yamatu)

1. Japan

• 倭

From Proto-Ryukyuan *yamato, from Proto-Japonic *yamatə. Cognate with Japanese 大和 (Yamato).

• IPA^(key): /damatu/

大和 (hiragana だまとぅ, rōmaji Damatu)

1. Japan

• “だまとぅ【大和・倭】” in JLect - Japonic Languages and Dialects Database Dictionary, 2019.