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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
- —軍備拡大expansion of armaments
- —需要拡大increase in (expansion of) demand
- —新党大地New Party Daichi; New Party Big Earth (Japanese political party)
- —一流大学top university; leading university; first-rate university
- —三大疾病three major diseases (cancer, cerebral stroke, acute myocardial infarction)
- —大黒黄金horned dung beetle (Copris ochus)
- —五大明王five great wisdom kings (Acala, Kundali, Trilokavijaya, Vajrayaksa, Yamantaka)
- —八大明王eight great wisdom kings (Acala, Kundali, Mezu, Munosho, Trilokavijaya, Ucchusma, Vajrayaksa, Yamantaka)
- —県立医大prefectural medical school
- —県立大学prefectural university
- —女子短大women's junior college
- —大円鏡智adarsa-jnana (great-perfect-mirror wisdom, wisdom clearly elucidating all things)
- —下大静脈inferior vena cava
- —上大静脈superior vena cava
- —桜島大根Sakurajima daikon (the largest variety of radish in the world)
- —四大元素the four classical chemical elements (fire, earth, air and water)
- —芸術大学university of arts; arts college
- —肥大成長secondary growth
- —農業大学agricultural university
- —大王椰子royal palm (esp. Cuban royal palm, Roystonea regia)