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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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On readings
ダイタイ
Kun readings
おお-おおきい-おおいに
Words with 大
LevelWord & meaningActions
- —大僧正high priest
- —大腸炎colitis
- —大福帳(Edo-period) account book
- —大福餅rice cake stuffed with sweet bean jam
- —大演習large-scale maneuvers; large-scale manoeuvres; war games
- —大静脈vena cava
- —大審院Supreme Court (until 1947); Great Court of Cassation
- —大蔵経the Tripitaka (complete Buddhist canon)
- —大盤石large rock; huge rock; being rock-solid; holding firm; being adamant
- —大勲位supreme order (i.e. of the chrysanthemum); highest possible order of merit
- —大憲章Magna Carta
- —左大臣Minister of the Left (official in Nara and Heian periods)
- —猫額大tiny
- —窮措大poor student (scholar)
- —大学寮Daigaku-ryō; former imperial university of Japan, established under the ritsuryō system for the training of government administrators
- —大極殿Council Hall in the Imperial Palace
- —大赤斑(Jupiter's) Great Red Spot
- —大納言chief councillor of state; chief councilor of state; large-grained variety of adzuki bean
- —大腿部femoral region; thigh area
- —大病人patient in a serious condition; serious case