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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)
On readings
ダイタイ
Kun readings
おお-おおきい-おおいに
Words with 大
LevelWord & meaningActions
- —大力immense physical strength
- —大弓bow; longbow
- —大凶terrible luck (esp. on an omikuji slip); very bad luck
- —大円large circle; great circle (of a sphere)
- —大乗Mahayana (Buddhism); the Great Vehicle; large passenger vehicle
- —大恩great debt of gratitude; great obligation
- —大黒god of wealth; monk's wife
- —大黄Chinese rhubarb (Rheum officinale); rhubarb root (used in traditional Chinese medicine)
- —大寒(time of) extreme cold; "major cold" solar term (approx. January 20, roughly the coldest time of the year)
- —大農large-scale (mechanized) farming; wealthy farmer; farmer who owns a lot of land
- —大罪serious crime; grave sin; mortal sin; deadly sin
- —大腿thigh
- —大難great disaster; calamity
- —大鷺great egret (Ardea alba); great white egret
- —工大institute of technology; technological university; technical university; engineering college
- —同大something of the same size; the said university
- —陸大Military Staff College
- —大弯greater curvature (of the stomach); curvatura ventriculi major
- —大字large character; alternative kanji used for numbers (esp. in financial contexts)
- —大夫high steward; grand master