A kanji
大
large, big
- 3 strokes
- Taught in grade 1 (kyōiku kanji)
- No. 7 of 2,500 in newspapers
On'yomi
ダイ、タイ
Kun'yomi
おお-、おお.きい、-おお.いに
A dot marks where the okurigana begin.
Stroke order
Stroke order is from KanjiVG, copyright Ulrich Apel, under CC BY-SA 3.0. A kanji is drawn only where KanjiVG and KANJIDIC2 count the same number of strokes.
Shapes inside it
The shapes EDRDG's KRADFILE lists 大 as containing. It is a lookup aid for finding a kanji by its parts: it says what the character contains, not where it comes from, and a shape need not be a kanji.
Written with 大 61 words
Grouped by JLPT level, easiest first, and oldest first within a level.
JLPT N5 · 10 words
JLPT N4 · 5 words
JLPT N3 · 19 words
- 大部分だいぶぶんmost part, majority
- 大統領だいとうりょうpresident
- 大臣だいじんcabinet minister
- 大家おおやlandlord
- 拡大かくだいmagnification, enlargement
- 大戦たいせんgreat war, great battle
- 大陸たいりくcontinent
- 大いにおおいにmuch, considerably (same as 大変 (たいへん)), greatly
- 大だいbig, great
- 大人しいおとなしいobedient, docile, quiet
- 大したたいしたsignificant, great, considerable
- 重大じゅうだいserious, important
- 偉大いだいgreatness
- 巨大きょだいhuge, gigantic, enormous
- 大会たいかいconvention, (big) tournament, mass meeting
- 大気たいきatmosphere
- 大使たいしambassador
- 大半たいはんmost of, majority, mostly
- 莫大ばくだいenormous, vast
JLPT N2 · 12 words
JLPT N1 · 15 words
- 大空おおぞらheaven, the sky
- 大方おおかたalmost all, majority
- 大筋おおすじoutline, summary
- 壮大そうだいmagnificent, grand, majestic
- 大水おおみずflood
- 大便だいべんfeces
- 大幅おおはばfull width, large scale, drastic
- 大柄おおがらlarge build, large pattern
- 盛大せいだいgrand, prosperous, magnificent
- 大概たいがいin general, mainly
- 大金たいきんlarge amount of money
- 大衆たいしゅうgeneral public
- 大胆だいたんbold, daring, audacious
- 大部たいぶmost (e.g., most part, greater, fairly, a good deal, much)
- 短大たんだいjunior college
Some of these words show it as a part of their “Taken apart” row: see the words taken apart with 大.
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