Kanji1 / 3
大 kanji
large, big
- JLPT level
- N5 (unofficial)
- First appears in
- N5 vocabulary
- Strokes
- 3
- School grade
- Grade 1 (elementary school)
Practice writing
Choose this kanji to write on five sheets. Save your practice to revisit it in My writing.
On readings
ダイタイ
Kun readings
おお-おおきい-おおいに
Words with 大
LevelWord & meaningActions
- —難関大学highly selective university; university with high entry requirements; elite university
- —大脳縦裂great longitudinal fissure; longitudinal cerebral fissure; longitudinal fissure; interhemispheric fissure; fissura longitudinalis cerebri; groove that separates the two hemispheres of the brain
- —大腿動脈femoral artery
- —陰茎増大penis enlargement
- —目大千鳥lesser sand plover (Charadrius mongolus)
- —拡大推計extrapolation; projection
- —大の大人grown man; grown woman; grown-up person; sensible person
- —大根焚きdaikon-offering ceremony (Ryotokuji temple, Kyoto)
- —浅漬大根half-dried daikon, salted and picked in kōji
- —八月大名the 8th month (of the lunar calendar) is the quietest for farmers
- —四大文明the four great civilizations of the world (China, Babylon, India and Egypt; as put forward by Chinese scholar Liang Qichao in 1900)
- —農林大臣Minister of Agriculture and Forestry
- —四大家魚four large domesticated fishes (black carp, grass carp, bighead carp, and silver carp)
- —最大規模biggest; largest scale
- —大韓帝国Korean Empire (1897-1910)
- —駅弁大学minor local college; small-time university
- —ブリ大根yellowtail and daikon cooked with soy sauce
- —大文字草Saxifraga fortunei var. alpina (species of rockfoil flower)
- —巨大都市megalopolis; megacity; supercity
- —大ファンbig fan (of something or someone); great fan