# 大本
## Chinese
### Pronunciation

* Mandarin
    (Pinyin): dàběn
    (Zhuyin): ㄉㄚˋ ㄅㄣˇ
* Cantonese (Jyutping): daai$^6$ bun$^2$
* Southern Min (Hokkien, POJ): tōa-pún
* Mandarin
** (Standard Chinese)
*** Hanyu Pinyin: dàběn
*** Zhuyin: ㄉㄚˋ ㄅㄣˇ
*** Tongyong Pinyin: dàběn
*** Wade–Giles: ta$^4$-pên$^3$
*** Yale: dà-běn
*** Gwoyeu Romatzyh: dahbeen
*** Palladius: дабэнь (dabɛnʹ)
*** Sinological IPA : /tä⁵¹ pən²¹⁴⁻²¹⁽⁴⁾/
** (Standard Chinese, erhua-ed)
*** Hanyu Pinyin: dàběnr
*** Zhuyin: ㄉㄚˋ ㄅㄣˇㄦ
*** Tongyong Pinyin: dàběnr
*** Wade–Giles: ta$^4$-pên$^3$-ʼrh
*** Yale: dà-běnr
*** Gwoyeu Romatzyh: dahbeel
*** Palladius: дабэньр (dabɛnʹr)
*** Sinological IPA : /tä⁵¹ pəɻ²¹⁴⁻²¹⁽⁴⁾/
* Cantonese
** (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
*** Jyutping: daai$^6$ bun$^2$
*** Yale: daaih bún
*** Cantonese Pinyin: daai$^6$ bun$^2$
*** Guangdong Romanization: dai$^6$ bun$^2$
*** Sinological IPA : /taːi̯²² puːn³⁵/
* Southern Min
** (Hokkien)
*** Pe̍h-ōe-jī: tōa-pún
*** Tâi-lô: tuā-pún
*** Phofsit Daibuun: doaxpuon
*** IPA (Xiamen): /tua²²⁻²¹ pun⁵³/
*** IPA (Quanzhou): /tua⁴¹⁻²² pun⁵⁵⁴/
*** IPA (Zhangzhou): /tua²²⁻²¹ pun⁵³/
*** IPA (Taipei): /tua³³⁻¹¹ pun⁵³/
*** IPA (Kaohsiung): /tua³³⁻²¹ pun⁴¹/

### Noun

大本
* (literary) foundation; basis
* Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see 大本 (dàběn); 大 (“big”) + 本 (“notebook”)
* Short for 大學本科／大学本科 (dàxué běnkē, “bachelor's degree at a university”).

#### Synonyms

* (foundation):
* 來源／来源 (láiyuán)
* 出處／出处 (chūchù)
* 基本 (jīběn)
* 本源 (běnyuán)
* 根 (gēn)
* 根本 (gēnběn)
* 根源 (gēnyuán)
* 根頭／根头 (Xiamen Hokkien, Zhangzhou Hokkien)
* 泉源 (quányuán)
* 淵源／渊源 (yuānyuán)
* 源 (yuán) (literary, or in compounds)
* 源泉 (yuánquán) (figurative)
* 源頭／源头 (yuántóu) (figurative)
* 濫觴／滥觞 (lànshāng) (literary)
* 由來／由来 (yóulái)
* 起源 (qǐyuán)

#### Antonyms

* (antonym(s) of “bachelor's degree”): 大專／大专 (dàzhuān)

#### Derived terms

* 大本大宗
* 大本營／大本营 (dàběnyíng)

## Japanese
### Etymology 1

Kanji in this term :
| 大 | 本 |
| おお Grade: 1 | もと Grade: 1 |
| kun'yomi ||

#### Pronunciation

* (Tokyo) おおもと [òómótó] (Heiban – [0])
* IPA: [o̞ːmo̞to̞]

#### Noun

大(おお)本(もと) • (ōmoto)
* foundation, basis
    Synonyms: ねっこ (nekko), 根源 (kongen), 根本

#### Proper noun

大(おお)本(もと) • (Ōmoto)
* a surname

### Etymology 2

Kanji in this term :
| 大 | 本 |
| たい Grade: 1 | ほん Grade: 1 |
| on'yomi ||
From Chinese 大本 (dàběn). Attested from at least the 11th century.
* This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium. Particularly: “If, as NKD seems to imply, the kan'on reading is older, then is the (apparent) goon some form of reanalysis?”

#### Pronunciation

* IPA: [ta̠ihõ̞ɴ]

#### Noun

大(たい)本(ほん) or 大本(だいほん) • (taihon or daihon)
* foundation, basis, basic fundamentals
** 1892, Ozaki Kōyō, Futari Nyōbō:
    爰(ここ)が家(か)内(ない)の治(なお)る大(たい)本(ほん)とも謂(いい)つべく
       Koko ga kanai no naoru taihon to mo ī tsu beku
       Here is the basis on which my wife should be cured

### Etymology 3

Kanji in this term :
| 大 | 本 |
| おお Grade: 1 | ほん Grade: 1 |
| kun'yomi | on'yomi |
Of 大 (ō, “great, large”) +‎ 本 (hon, “book”). Attested from the Edo period.

#### Pronunciation

* IPA: [o̞ːhõ̞ɴ]

#### Noun

大(おお)本(ほん) • (ōhon)
* (publishing, printing) folio (large book made from sheets of Mino washi paper folded in half)

#### See also

* 美(み)濃(の)紙(がみ) (Minogami, “Mino washi paper”)

### References

* ↑ Matsumura, Akira, editor (2006), 大辞林 [Daijirin] (in Japanese), Third edition, Tokyo: Sanseidō, →ISBN
* 1 2 “大本”, in 日本国語大辞典 [Nihon Kokugo Daijiten]‎ (in Japanese), concise edition, Tokyo: Shogakukan, 2006