漢字Kanji · in States & Attributes
大: large, big
JLPT N53 strokesGrade 1Your ink: 白 Not met
3 strokes
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Oracle bone and bronze: Wikimedia Commons, traced from Academia Sinica, CC0. Small seal: Academia Sinica 小學堂, CC0. Today’s form: KanjiVG, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Four readings, and the words that use each
ダイdai · on'yomi · in compounds
- 大学だいがくuniversity
- 大学院だいがくいんgraduate school
- 大体だいたいin general, mostly
- お大事におだいじにtake care (to a sick person)
- 大丈夫だいじょうぶsafe, all right
- 大分だいぶconsiderably
タイtai · on'yomi
- 大変なたいへんなterrible, very
- 大したたいしたsignificant
おお-oo- · kun'yomi · on its own
- 大阪おおさかOsaka
おおきいookii · kun'yomi
- 大きいおおきいbig
Also read -おおいに, with no example words in our sources. Words: Kanji alive, CC BY 4.0.
成り立ち
Where it comes from
Origin · sourced
Pictogram (象形)
A standing person facing forward.
Source: Wiktionary, 大 (rev. 94592373), CC BY-SA 4.0
Memory story · made up to help you remember
“The base kanji for scale, used to describe everything from physical size to the greatness of a person's character or the importance of an event.”
繋がり
Connections
Ink shades, lightest to darkest: 白 Not met, 淡 Met, 中 Learning, 濃 Familiar, 印 Mastered
Also read ダイ
11 kanji share this on'yomiEasy to confuse
The difference, side by side大 large
vs丈 lengthIn ChineseSame character in simplified and traditional · dà
Same form: 大 is written the same way in mainland China (simplified) and in Taiwan and Hong Kong (traditional).
- Simplified
- 大 mainland China, Singapore
- Traditional
- 大 Taiwan, Hong Kong
Pinyin dà most common reading
Forms and pinyin: Unicode Unihan database (Unicode License v3). Pinyin lists the most common reading, not every reading.
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