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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)
On readings
ダイタイ
Kun readings
おお-おおきい-おおいに
Words with 大
LevelWord & meaningActions
- —大八車large two-wheeled wagon
- —大上段holding a sword above one's head (kendo posture); haughty attitude; overbearing manner
- —大小便feces and urine
- —大元帥commander-in-chief; generalissimo
- —大本山head temple of a Buddhist sect
- —大本営Imperial General Headquarters (Japan)
- —大臼歯molar
- —大団円denouement; ending; conclusion; (grand) finale
- —大豆油soybean oil
- —大豆粕soybean cake
- —大車輪(gymnastical) giant swing; all-out effort; frenzied activity
- —大法廷full court; grand bench of the supreme court
- —大往生peaceful death
- —大英断resolute decision
- —大乗的broad; great
- —大神宮Grand Shrine at Ise
- —大宮司high priest of a great shrine
- —大根足thick legs; fat legs; cankle; cankles
- —大黒天Mahakala (incarnation of Mahesvara); Daikokuten; god of wealth
- —大過去past perfect tense; pluperfect