大和

		big; great; huge big; great; huge; large; major; wide; deep; oldest; eldest; doctor	mix together; peace; harmony mix together; peace; harmony; and; with; union; cap (a poem); respond in singing; soft; warm
simp. and trad. (大和)		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. (～國) Yamato Province, a former province in Japan, generally equivalent Nara Prefecture
4. An orthographic borrowing of the Japanese surname 大和, Yamato

• 日本 (Rìběn)
• 倭 (wō)

Kanji in this term
大	和
やまと
Grade: 1	Grade: 3
jukujikun

Alternative spellings
倭 和

⟨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 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).

• (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 (Should we delete⁽⁺⁾ this sense?)
6. 大和: a male given name
7. 大和: a surname

• (Japan): 日本 (Nihon, Nippon)

(Japan):

• → Chinese: 大和 (Dàhé)

• 奈良(なら) (Nara)

Kanji in this term
大	和
おお Grade: 1	やまと Grade: 3
kun'yomi	irregular

Alternative spellings
大倭 大日本

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).

• 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)

Kanji in this term
大	和
だい Grade: 1	わ Grade: 3
on'yomi

Appears to be a borrowing from Middle Chinese 大和 (MC dajH|daH hwa|hwaH).

• IPA^(key): [da̠iβ̞a̠]

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.

Kanji in this term
大	和
Grade: 1	Grade: 3

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

• IPA^(key): /jamatuː/

大和(やまと゚ぅー) (Yamatū) 

1. Japan

Kanji in this term
大	和
Grade: 1	Grade: 3

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

• IPA^(key): /jamatu/

大和(やまとぅ) (Yamatu) 

1. Japan

Kanji in this term
大	和
やまとぅ
Grade: 1	Grade: 3
jukujikun

Alternative spellings
倭 和 日本

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

• IPA^(key): /jamatu/

大和(やまとぅ) (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.

Kanji in this term
大	和
うふやまとぅ
Grade: 1	Grade: 3
jukujikun

大和(うふやまとぅ) (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.
• Kokuritsu Kokugo Kenkyūjo (国立国語研究所) (1963) 沖縄語辞典 (Okinawa-go Jiten) (in Japanese), Tokyo (東京): Okurashō Insatsu Kyoku (財務省印刷局)
• “ヤマト（やまと）” in Okinawan Dialect Dictionary - Ajima.

Kanji in this term
大	和
Grade: 1	Grade: 3

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

• IPA^(key): /jamatu/

大和(やまとぅ) (Yamatu) 

1. Japan

Kanji in this term
大	和
Grade: 1	Grade: 3

Alternative spelling
倭

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

• IPA^(key): /damatu/

大和(だまとぅ) (Damatu) 

1. Japan

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