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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
- —大名行列daimyo's procession
- —大名屋敷daimyo's mansion
- —大名旅行traveling in luxury; travelling in luxury; junket
- —大学紛争campus strife
- —大乗仏教Mahayana Buddhism
- —大胆不敵daring; fearless; audacious; bold; dauntless; daredevil
- —大逆事件High Treason Incident (socialist-anarchist plot to assassinate Emperor Meiji in 1910)
- —大根役者bad actor; lousy actor; wooden actor; ham actor
- —大脳皮質cerebral cortex
- —大慈大悲great compassion and mercy
- —心臓肥大enlargement of the heart
- —単科大学one-faculty university; one-faculty college
- —外様大名daimyo not sworn to support Tokugawa before the battle of Sekigahara (1600); non-Tokugawa daimyo
- —司法大臣Minister of Justice
- —叩き大工clumsy carpenter
- —前大統領previous president (immediately preceding the incumbent); former president
- —肥大したenlarged; fat; swollen
- —陸軍大臣Army Minister; Minister of War
- —拡大解釈broad interpretation
- —学芸大学liberal arts college; teachers' college