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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
- —帝大imperial university
- —大聖Buddha; high-ranked bodhisattva
- —大用feces; excrement; large effect
- —大網greater omentum; caul
- —外大university of foreign studies; university specializing in foreign languages
- —大女grown-up woman; adult woman
- —二大the big two ...; two major ...; two main ...
- —大領director of a district (ritsuryō system)
- —大冠kanji "big" radical at top
- —大祥second anniversary of a person's death
- —掌大small; tiny; size of a palm
- —大覚great awakening; great enlightening; greatly awakened person; understanding; comprehension
- —老大growing old; old person
- —大大very big; very large; taking up a lot of space
- —大二daini (type of playing cards)
- —大法great teachings (of the Buddha); teachings of the Mahayana; most important ritual (in esoteric Buddhism)
- —大貨large truck
- —大特large special-purpose vehicle
- —大連Dalian (China)
- —大寺large temple