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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)
Practice writing
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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
- —大環状macrocyclic; large ring
- —大便所toilet (for defecating)
- —大感謝big thanks; great gratitude
- —大辞泉Daijisen (Japanese dictionary published by Shogakukan)
- —大念仏loudly reciting Amithaba's name
- —最大級largest class; top category
- —大教室lecture hall; lecture theatre; auditorium
- —丸大豆whole soybeans; unprocessed soybeans
- —大海令imperial navy order
- —大丈夫great man; fine figure of a man
- —大評判sensation; great popularity; big stir; big splash
- —侍大将samurai general (esp. during the Sengoku period)
- —大根餅turnip cake (dim sum dish); radish cake
- —大鷺草Habenaria dentata (species of bog orchid)
- —沼大根Adenostemma lavenia (species of flowering plant)
- —大字報big-character poster (in China); large-print wall newspaper
- —大得意excellent; very good; exultant; elated
- —大博士distinguished scholar; holder of a higher doctorate
- —大怪獣large monster (Japanese film genre)
- —大惑星major planet; giant planet; Jovian planet