Apedia

Large Great Big Important Enormous E.G 大 Greatly

Kanji
Onyomi ダイ、タイ
Kunyomi おお-、おお.きい、-おお.いに
Nanori うふ, お, おう, た, たかし, とも, はじめ, ひろ, ひろし, まさ, まさる, もと, わ
English large, big
Examples 大分(だいぶ): considerably; greatly; a lot
拡大(かくだい): magnification; enlargement; expansion
大会(たいかい): convention; tournament; mass meeting; rally
大学(だいがく): (1) post-secondary education institution, incl. university, college, etc. (2) former central university of Kyoto (established under the ritsuryo system for the training of government administrators) (3) the Great Learning - one of the Four Books
大統領(だいとうりょう): president; chief executive
大幅(おおはば): (1) big; large; drastic; substantial (2) full-width cloth (approx. 72 cm wide for traditional Japanese clothing; approx. 140 cm wide for Western clothing)
大使(たいし): ambassador
大切(たいせつ): important; valuable; worthy of care
大変(たいへん): (1) very; greatly (2) immense; enormous; great (3) serious; grave; dreadful; terrible (4) difficult; hard (5) major incident; disaster
重大(じゅうだい): serious; important; significant; grave; weighty
大使館(たいしかん): embassy
大臣(だいじん): cabinet minister
大人(おとな): adult
大半(たいはん): majority; mostly; generally
巨大(きょだい): huge; gigantic; enormous
大学院(だいがくいん): graduate school
大勢(おおぜい): many; crowd; great number of people
大戦(たいせん): great war; great battle
大気(たいき): atmosphere
大衆(たいしゅう): general public; the masses
大陸(たいりく): continent
短大(たんだい): junior college
大いに(おおいに): very; much; greatly; a lot of
大丈夫(だいじょうぶ): safe; all right; OK; okay
大胆(だいたん): bold; daring; audacious
膨大(ぼうだい): huge; bulky; enormous; extensive; swelling; expansion
大工(だいく): carpenter
大きい(おおきい): big; large; great; loud
増大(ぞうだい): enlargement; increase
大好き(だいすき): loveable; very likeable; like very much
大事(だいじ): important; valuable; serious matter
大部分(だいぶぶん): most part; greater part; majority
偉大(いだい): greatness
総理大臣(そうりだいじん): Prime Minister
大小(だいしょう): (1) sizes (various); large and small (2) daisho (matched pair of long and short swords) (3) large and small drums (4) long months and short months
大方(おおかた): perhaps; almost all; majority
大体(だいたい): general; substantially; outline; main point; approximately; about
大金(たいきん): large amount of money; great cost
盛大(せいだい): grand; prosperous; magnificent
大家(たいか): expert
大げさ(おおげさ): grandiose; exaggerated
大通り(おおどおり): main street
大抵(たいてい): (1) mostly; ordinarily; usually; generally (2) probably (3) most; almost all (4) (before a neg. form) ordinary (5) proper; appropriate; moderate
大きな(おおきな): big; large; great
大筋(おおすじ): outline; summary
壮大(そうだい): magnificent; grand; majestic; splendid
大木(たいぼく): large tree
大ざっぱ(おおざっぱ): rough (as in not precise); broad; sketchy
大空(おおぞら): heavens; firmament; sky
大水(おおみず): flood
大屋(おおや): landlord; landlady
お大事に(おだいじに): take care of yourself; get well soon; God bless you; bless you
大した(たいした): considerable; great; important; significant; a big deal
大して(たいして): (not so) much; (not) very
大概(たいがい): (1) in general; almost all (2) mainly; mostly; most likely (3) moderately; suitably
大学生(だいがくせい): university student; college student
大人しい(おとなしい): obedient; docile; quiet
大層(たいそう): very much; exaggerated; very fine
大便(だいべん): feces; excrement; shit
莫大(ばくだい): enormous; vast
大部(たいぶ): (1) lengthy (of a book, etc.); voluminous (2) most (e.g. most part); greater; fairly; a good deal; much
大柄(おおがら): (1) large build (2) large pattern
大よそ(おおよそ): about; roughly; as a rule; approximately
大(おお): big; large
大(だい): (1) the large part of (2) big; large; great (3) approximate size; no larger than (4) -university (5) large (e.g. serving size); loud (e.g. volume setting)
JLPT Level 5
Jouyou Grade 1
Frequency 7
Components 大: big, big radical (no. 37)
Number of Strokes 3
Kanji Radical
Radical Number 37
Radical Strokes 3
Radical Reading だい・おおきい
Traditional Form (none)
Classification 象形 Pictographic
Keyword large
Koohii Story 1 A person stretching their arms and legs to look large and scare a bear away.
Koohii Story 2 Think of a large St. Bernard dog with his paws all stretched out.
RTK Index (new) 112

Tags: jlpt.n5, grade1, kanjifreq1-250, kanji_physical.properties_shape.size

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