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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
- —大治Daiji era (1126.1.22-1131.1.29)
- —散大dilation (of the pupil)
- —大篆large seal script (dating from China's Spring and Autumn period onward)
- —立大private university
- —大膳black-bellied plover; grey plover (Pluvialis squatarola)
- —大のlarge; big; grown (man, etc.); great (friend, etc.); huge (football fan, etc.)
- —農大agricultural university
- —五大the five elements (in Japanese philosophy: earth, water, fire, wind and void); five great wisdom kings
- —大尺large shaku (approx. 35.6cm)
- —大証Osaka Securities Exchange
- —六大the six elements (earth, water, fire, wind, void, and consciousness)
- —三大the big three ...
- —大悪atrocity; outrage; heinousness
- —大検University Entrance Qualification Examination (establishes the equivalent of high-school graduation prior to 2005)
- —大頭school of kowakamai dance founded by Yamamoto Sirozaemon
- —大姉Sister (i.e. a nun; sometimes used as a posthumous suffix)
- —社大Socialist Masses Party
- —四大university or college offering four-year programs; the big four ...; the four major ...
- —四大the four elements (earth, water, fire, wind); the human body; Tao, heaven, earth and king
- —大薯water yam (Dioscorea alata); winged yam; purple yam