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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
- —大統領候補presidential candidate
- —大統領代行acting president
- —大統領夫人first lady
- —法科大学院law school
- —大ニュースbig news
- —大事を取るto take care doing something; to be prudent; to take no chances; to play it safe
- —大東亜戦争Greater East Asian War (1941-1945); Pacific War
- —大日本帝国Empire of Japan (Japan's official name under the Meiji Constitution)
- —中大脳動脈middle cerebral artery
- —拡大連座制expanded system of guilt by association in Japanese election law, which stipulates that an elected official may lose his position if someone in his campaign commits a crime
- —大選挙区制electoral system allowing for the election of multiple candidates from one district; multi-member constituent electoral system
- —大学院進学continuing one's education into graduate school
- —大漢和辞典Dai Kanwa Jiten (major kanji dictionary compiled by Morohashi Tetsuji)
- —利潤最大化profit maximization; profit maximisation
- —効用最大化utility maximization; utility maximisation
- —大東大蝙蝠Daito flying fox (Pteropus dasymallus daitoensis)
- —大母音推移Great Vowel Shift
- —大脳基底核basal ganglia; basal nuclei
- —大脳辺縁系limbic system
- —先端巨大症acromegaly