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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
- —軍大将(military) commander
- —大覚醒Great Awakening (18th century American Christian revival movement)
- —大転子greater trochanter; trochanter major
- —私立大private university
- —公立大public university
- —大合唱large chorus
- —大爆発large explosion
- —大貴族leading aristocrat; great house; grand seigneur; boyar
- —大日本Great Japan
- —大作戦large-scale operation; large-scale campaign; major mission
- —大円団denouement; ending; conclusion; (grand) finale
- —大逆転dramatic turn-around; major reversal; great comeback; game changer
- —医大生medical student
- —大賢者great sage
- —肥大化swelling; enlargement
- —大吉日very auspicious day
- —大戦争major war; great war; world war
- —大抜擢very surprising choice (for a role, promotion, etc.); unexpected appointment
- —大転換drastic change; sea change; major turnaround
- —大径木large-diameter tree (70 cm or larger); stout tree