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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
- —大流行big craze; boom; popular trend; huge popularity; widespread contagion; large outbreak
- —大失敗complete failure; debacle; fiasco; disaster
- —大勝利huge win; overwhelming victory
- —大衆部Mahasamghika (early Buddhist movement)
- —大進歩major progress; huge advance
- —大学校educational facility established in affiliation with a government agency
- —大飢饉great famine; severe famine
- —名刺大business-card size
- —大学芋candied sweet potato
- —大事故serious accident; major incident
- —大豆粉soy flour
- —大至急as soon as possible; ASAP
- —大学祭university festival; rag day
- —大発作grand mal (seizure)
- —大杓鷸Eurasian curlew (Numenius arquata)
- —大富豪extremely rich person; multimillionaire; billionaire; daifugō; daihinmin; card game similar to President
- —大茴香star anise (Illicium verum)
- —大不敬great impropriety (esp. towards the imperial family); crime against the imperial family (or a shrine dedicated to them, etc.)
- —大原則overriding principle; main principle; great principle
- —大胸筋pectoralis major muscle