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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
- —小事は大事a small leak can sink a great ship
- —四大公害病the four major pollution-caused illnesses (Minamata disease, Niigata Minamata disease, Yokkaichi asthma, Itai-itai disease); four big pollution diseases of Japan
- —民族大移動Völkerwanderung; great migration in Europe, 4th to 6th century CE
- —大ショックgreat shock
- —内閣大学士position at the imperial court in ancient China; grand secretariat
- —大学院受験taking a graduate school entrance examination
- —大学院入試graduate school entrance examination
- —大災害債券catastrophe bond; cat bond
- —最大積載量maximum carrying capacity; maximum payload
- —六字大明呪great six-syllable mantra ("om mani padme hum")
- —大気大循環atmospheric general circulation
- —大腸内視鏡colonoscope; colonoscopy
- —大規模停電major power outage; massive blackout
- —大動脈解離aortic dissection
- —大学図書館university library; college library
- —母なる大地Mother Earth
- —旧帝国大学former imperial university
- —国公立大学national, prefectural and other public universities and colleges
- —総大腿動脈common femoral artery
- —外国語大学university of foreign studies; university specializing in foreign languages