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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
- —東日本大震災Great East Japan earthquake (March 11, 2011); Tōhoku earthquake; Tohoku earthquake; Sendai earthquake
- —最大許容線量maximum permissible dose
- —技術科学大学university of technology; science and technology college
- —世界四大文明the four great civilizations of the world (China, Babylon, India, and Egypt; as put forward by Chinese scholar Liang Qichao in 1900)
- —声を大にするto emphasize; to state emphatically; to speak loudly about; to raise one's voice; to lift one's voice
- —三千大千世界the whole universe (of a billion worlds) that Buddha enlightened
- —特命担当大臣Minister of State for Special Missions
- —大豆レシチンsoy lecithin
- —巨大ガス惑星gas giant
- —大学デビューattempting to change one's image when one starts university
- —平成の大合併the great municipal mergers of the Heisei era; series of large-scale municipal mergers carried out between 1995 and 2010 under the temporary Special Mergers Law
- —最大瞬間風速maximum instantaneous wind speed
- —デジタル大臣Minister for Digital Transformation
- —大事なところprivate parts; important parts
- —看護短期大学nursing college
- —人生の大先輩person much older than oneself (who has much more life experience)
- —Ｆランク大学bottom-tier university with low entry requirements
- —大英帝国勲章Order of the British Empire
- —大王酸漿烏賊colossal squid (Mesonychoteuthis hamiltoni)
- —摩訶大大将棋maka dai dai shogi (large 19x19 board shogi variant)