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大 kanji
large, big
- JLPT level
- N5 (unofficial)
- First appears in
- N5 vocabulary
- Strokes
- 3
- School grade
- Grade 1 (elementary school)
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ダイタイ
Kun readings
おお-おおきい-おおいに
Words with 大
LevelWord & meaningActions
- —尨大huge; vast; enormous; colossal; extensive; large
- —鴻大great; immense
- —大彎greater curvature (of the stomach); curvatura ventriculi major
- —４大university or college offering four-year programs; the big four ...; the four major ...
- —拳大fist-sized
- —大々very big; very large; taking up a lot of space
- —芸大Tokyo University of Arts (abbr)
- —粗大塵large-size refuse (e.g. furniture, electrical goods); oversized garbage; bulky rubbish; useless man about the house; husband who is retired and considered a nuisance
- —大大的great; grand; extensive; large-scale
- —ばく大vast; huge; immense; enormous; colossal; malva nut (Scaphium affine)
- —六大洲the six continents; Asia, Africa, North America, South America, Europe and Australia
- —五大洲the five continents; Asia, Africa, Europe, America and Australia; Asia, Africa, Europe, North America and South America
- —舟大工shipwright; boatbuilder
- —大根脚thick legs; fat legs; cankle; cankles
- —大磐石large rock; huge rock; being rock-solid; holding firm; being adamant
- —大尺鷸Eurasian curlew (Numenius arquata)
- —大神楽grand kagura performance at Ise; type of performance including the lion dance and juggling; Camellia japonica 'Daikagura' (cultivar of Japanese camellia)
- —大腸癌colorectal cancer; large bowel cancer
- —大臀筋gluteus maximus
- —鰤大根yellowtail and daikon cooked with soy sauce