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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
- —四大発明Four Great Inventions (of China: the compass, gunpowder, papermaking and printing)
- —大感謝祭great customer appreciation sale (held at year-end, on a company anniversary, etc.)
- —大学院卒postgraduate degree holder; holder of masters degree or doctorate
- —無遮大会great equal assembly (quinquennial service of indiscriminatory almsgiving and preaching)
- —連邦大学federal university
- —看護大学nursing college
- —府立大学prefectural university (Osaka or Kyoto)
- —国主大名daimyo with a domain of one or more provinces (Edo period)
- —大っ嫌いhating; strongly disliking
- —看護短大nursing college
- —官立大学government-established university; national university
- —大後頭孔foramen magnum
- —市立大学city university; municipal college
- —大サイズlarge size
- —大学生活university life; college life
- —三大欲求the three great desires (sleep, food and sex)
- —扁桃肥大tonsillar hypertrophy; enlarged tonsils
- —大脳半球cerebral hemisphere
- —大建中湯dai-kenchu-to (traditional Japanese herbal medicine); DKT
- —大胞子嚢macrosporangium; megasporangium