big; large; great

Character data

HSK 1
Frequency 17th character
Radical ⼤ (37.0)
Strokes 3
Index # 32

Definitions

大 dà
  1. 1. big
  2. 2. large
  3. 3. great
  4. 4. major
  5. 5. huge
  6. 6. very much
  7. 7. greatly
  8. 8. older (than)
  9. 9. eldest
  10. 10. oldest
  11. 11. wide
  12. 12. deep
  13. 13. father's elder or younger brother
  14. 14. (dialect) father
大 dài
  1. 1. see dài fu

Stroke order

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Words containing 大

Word Meaning
human excrement
to just escape from calamity
National People’s Congress; Renmin University
Kandahar (town in Southern Afghanistan)
extraordinary shame and humiliation (idiom)
the New World
king-sized; jumbo
swelling; enlargement; hypertrophy
generalissimo
uppercase letters; capital letters
Dahu township, Miaoli, Taiwan
to beat it; to steal away
to abuse roundly
sb with more money than sense; spendthrift and foolish
cell phone (bulky, early-model one); brick phone; mob boss
a power (i.e. a dominant country)
to inflict a defeat on sb; to defeat
big stick (policy etc)
to split one's sides laughing; hilarious; uproarious
to possess remarkable abilities
large knife; machete; broadsword
by a big amount; substantially
a general or admiral
substantial; by a wide margin
large strides