大义

righteousness / virtuous cause / a woman's marriage / main points of a piece of writing

see 大夫[dai4 fu5]

big; large; great / older (than another person) / eldest (as in 大姐[da4 jie3]) / greatly; freely; fully / (dialect) father / (dialect) uncle (father's brother)

surname Yi / (Tw) abbr. for 義大利|义大利[Yi4 da4 li4], Italy

justice / righteousness / meaning / foster (father etc) / adopted / artificial (tooth, limb etc) / relationship / friendship

devotion to righteousness that inspires reverence (idiom)

to place righteousness before family (idiom); ready to punish one's own family if justice demands it

to have a high notion of one's duty / to be highly principled

subtle words with profound meaning (idiom)

to reason with sb / to lecture