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Kanji Detail for 巨 - "large"

巨

  • Meaning

    巨 means "large." Also associated with many, why.

    1. Large - Very big; enormous.

    2. Many - Numerous; great in number.

    3. Why - How; used to express rhetorical questions.

  • Words using 巨

    • 巨人 きょじん Listen giant; great man; Tokyo Giants (baseball team)
    • 巨大 きょだい Listen huge; gigantic; enormous
    • 巨額 きょがく Listen huge sum (esp. of money); enormous sum; massive amount
    • 巨匠 きょしょう Listen master; masterhand; maestro
    • 巨体 きょたい Listen huge body; large build
    • 巨視的 きょしてき Listen macroscopic; comprehensive; all-including

  • Tattoo check: 巨

    • Verified meaning: large
    • Official Jōyō kanji — a standard character every Japanese reader recognises
    • Used in real Japanese given names (read きょ, たかし, なお, なみ)
    • Also carries these associations: many, why

    A single kanji rarely maps one-to-one onto an English word. Read the meanings and associations above as a set — a character that fits the dictionary definition can still carry a connotation you did not intend.

  • Name readings of 巨

    Given names 巨(きょ)Listen 巨(たかし)Listen 巨(なお)Listen 巨(なみ)Listen 巨(ひろし)Listen

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  • Dictionary Citations

    The meaning above is based on the following sources:

    KANJIDIC2 A comprehensive Japanese-English kanji dictionary

    gigantic; big; large; great

    Unihan Unicode Han Database for CJK characters

    large, great, enormous; chief

    CC-CEDICT A Chinese-English dictionary

    very large; huge; tremendous; gigantic; (coll.) very; extremely

    Make Me a Hanzi Open-source Chinese character data

    large, huge, gigantic; chief

    XSZD Xuéshēng Zìdiǎn (學生字典) - Student's Dictionary

    Great. 巨室 is like saying a great family. See (Mencius). Also, a large number is 巨萬, meaning a great ten thousand.

  • Onyomi

    tip

    kyo(キョ) キョ

  • Kunyomi

    tip
    none

  • Strokes

    tip

    5 strokes

  • Radical

    tip

    工 (e・takumi・takumihen・ko)

  • Related Keywords

    large many why big giant huge enormous colossal extensive gigantic grand great immense mammoth massive monumental oversized prodigious spacious substantial towering tremendous vast

Sentences including 巨

  • Tokyo is a huge city.

  • What is that huge building?

  • He lives in an enormous house.

  • New york is a huge city.

  • The new building is enormous.

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