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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
- —並び大名someone who has a title but no real duty; useless person; actor playing a daimyo who merely sets the scene as part of the background
- —大学別曹Heian-period boarding school (for children of a specific noble clan) established near the former central university of Kyoto
- —七大私学seven boarding schools established in Kyoto by noble families during the early Heian period
- —巨大地震megaquake; massive earthquake
- —大腸がんcolorectal cancer; large bowel cancer
- —過去最大largest ever; biggest; record
- —文科大学liberal arts college
- —大都市圏greater metropolitan area; megalopolis; conurbation
- —大スターbig star; superstar
- —帝国大学imperial university; university founded by the Empire of Japan between 1886 and 1939; Imperial University (name of the University of Tokyo between 1886 and 1897)
- —守護大名provincial military governor turned daimyo (Muromachi period) (distinct from the shugo bureaucrats of the Kamakura period)
- —大理石像marble statue
- —大学講師university lecturer; college lecturer
- —大学予科preparatory course for college
- —誇大宣伝exaggerated advertisement; overblown advertising; hype
- —大脳交連cerebral commissure
- —大学入試university entrance examination
- —輸出拡大expansion of exports; export expansion
- —大火砕流large pyroclastic flow
- —投資拡大increased investment