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Kanji Detail for 大 - "big, large, great"

  • Meaning

    大 means "big, large, great."

    1. Big - Large in size; great in degree; many in number or quantity.

    2. Excellent - Outstanding; magnificent; impressive.

    3. Greatly - Very much; extremely; considerably.

    4. Proud - Arrogant; having a haughty attitude.

    5. Approximately - Roughly; generally; more or less.

    6. Honorific - A word of respect added before someone's name.

    7. Prefix - A prefix indicating respect or greatness.

  • Dictionary Citations

    The meaning above is based on the following sources:

    KANJIDIC2 A comprehensive Japanese-English kanji dictionary

    large; big

    Unihan Unicode Han Database for CJK characters

    big, great, vast, large, high

    CC-CEDICT A Chinese-English dictionary

    big; large; great; older (than another person); eldest (as in 大姐[da4 jie3]); greatly; freely; fully; (dialect) father; (dialect) uncle (father's brother)

    Make Me a Hanzi Open-source Chinese character data

    big, great, vast, high, deep

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

    Opposite of 小 (small). Also 大凡 (generally), 大概 (roughly). | An honorific term for others. Such as calling someone's writings 大作, 大著. | Among brothers, the first is called 大. This expression existed in Tang times. | Anciently interchangeable with 太. Such as 大和, 大極, 大牢. All read like 太.
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