Kanji1 / 3
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
- —粗大Popularcoarse; rough; bulky
- —多大Populargreat (quantity, amount, etc.); huge; enormous; serious
- —大根Populardaikon (variety of large white Oriental radish, Raphanus sativus var. longipinnatus); bad actor; lousy actor; wooden actor; ham actor
- —大隊Popularbattalion
- —大地Popularearth; ground; the solid earth; the (vast) land
- —大腸Popularlarge intestine; large bowel; colon
- —大豆Popularsoya bean (Glycine max); soybean; soy
- —大脳Popularcerebrum
- —大仏Popularlarge statue of Buddha (trad. at least 4.8m high)
- —大名Populardaimyo (Japanese feudal lord)
- —特大Popularextra-large; king-size
- —肥大Popularswelling; enlargement; becoming fat; hypertrophy
- —雄大Populargrand; magnificent; majestic; great; sublime
- —大卒Popularuniversity graduate; having graduated from university
- —私大Popularprivate university
- —大同Populargeneral resemblance; being largely the same; uniting with a common goal; Daidō era (806.5.18-810.9.19)
- —大師Populargreat teacher (i.e. a buddha, bodhisattva or high monk, esp. Kobo Daishi)
- —大道Popularmain street; avenue
- —大刀Popular(Japanese) long sword; large sword; guandao; Chinese glaive
- —女子大Popularwomen's college; women's university