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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
- —夜郎自大throwing one's weight around without knowing one's limitations; Yelang thinks too highly of itself
- —郵政大臣Minister of Posts and Telecommunications
- —労働大臣Minister of Labour
- —広大無辺boundless; infinite; vast
- —大韓民国Republic of Korea; South Korea
- —大学浪人student preparing to re-take initially failed university entrance examinations
- —伴食大臣nominal (figurehead) minister; titular minister
- —州立大学state university
- —工科大学institute of technology; technological university; technical university; engineering college
- —工業大学institute of technology; technological university; technical university; engineering college
- —譜代大名hereditary daimyo whose ancestors supported Tokugawa Ieyasu prior to the battle of Sekigahara
- —総合大学(multi-faculty) university
- —放送大学continuing education courses offered via radio or television; open university
- —新制大学university (operated under post-war guidelines)
- —最大限度maximum
- —水産大学fisheries college
- —女子大生student of a women's college; female university student
- —海軍大臣Minister of the Navy
- —練馬大根Nerima daikon (variety of daikon with a long, thick root)
- —大同団結merger; (presenting a) united front