First opened Sunday, October 14, 2012
大水
おおみず
- middle-high (nakadaka): falls after mora 3
- head-high (atamadaka): falls after mora 1
How to read it: a line over a kana means the voice is high there, and ↓ marks where it drops. A kana with no line is low. With no ↓ the pitch stays high to the end and does not drop even on a following particle (が, は).
flood
Ōmizu is 大 (ō, “great”) plus 水 (mizu, “water”).
Taken apart
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In a sentence
橋は大水で流された。
The bridge was carried away by the flood.
橋は大水で洗い流された。
The bridge was washed away by the flood.
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What Wiktionary says
Quoted line by line from Wiktionary's Etymology section for this reading, taken from one dated dump so it can't change underneath us. Nothing below is paraphrased.
- “Compound of 大 (ō, “great”) + 水 (mizu, “water”).”
Source: Wiktionary: 大水 (dump of 2026-09-02), available under CC BY-SA 4.0. Reading, meaning and part of speech from JMdict, and kanji readings from KANJIDIC2 (EDRDG).
Other readings of 大水 on the same Wiktionary page
These describe other words written the same way, not おおみず. They are quoted for context: the parts, layer and processes of this word are not taken from them.
たいすい
- “From Middle Chinese compound 大水 (dajᴴ sywij^X, literally “great + water”). Compare modern Mandarin 大水 (dàshuǐ, “flood”).”
What the labels mean
- 和語 Native Japanese
- Words that were already Japanese before Chinese vocabulary arrived — usually written with kun'yomi and often short.
- Compound
- Two or more words or stems joined into one.