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
bumblebee
bumblebee
large yellow croaker fish
large yellow croaker; a common food fish
rat
to fast; to abstain from food
to fast; to abstain from food
Lent (Christian period of forty days before Easter)
Lent (Christian period of forty days before Easter)
Christian lent; great fast
Christian lent; great fast
older (than average in a group, at school, for marriage etc)
older unmarried young adult
older single young adult
the whole country in rebellion
the whole country in rebellion
the Almagest by Ptolemy
the Almagest by Ptolemy
Tianjin Foreign Studies University
Tianjin Foreign Studies University
Tianjin University
Tianjin University
extraordinary shame and humiliation (idiom)
when a girl is of age, she must be married off (idiom)
girls change a lot as they grow up