大
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big; large; great; older (than another person); eldest (as in 大姐[da4 jie3]); greatly; freely; fully; (dialect) father; (dialect) uncle (father's brother)
- HSK 3.0
- Level 1
- Old HSK
- Level 1
- Strokes
- 3
- Radical
- 大 itself
- Structure
- Overlaid 叠加
- Traditional
- 大
- Common rank
- #3
- Unicode
- U+5927
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Formation & memory
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Words with 大
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| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 不大 | not very (clear, far away etc); not too; not often; infrequently | |
| 大学 | the Great Learning, one of the Four Books 四書|四书[Si4 shu1] in Confucianism | |
| 大学 | university; college; CL:所[suo3] | |
| 大学生 | university student; college student | |
| 大大 | greatly; enormously; (dialect) dad; uncle | |
| 人大 | Renmin University of China (abbr. for 中國人民大學|中国人民大学[Zhong1 guo2 Ren2 min2 Da4 xue2]) | |
| 人大 | people's congress, a legislative body within the PRC's system of government at any of vari… | |
| 大人 | adult; grownup; title of respect toward superiors | |
| 大一 | first year of university | |
| 国大 | abbr. for 國民大會|国民大会, National Assembly of the Republic of China (extant during various per… | |
| 大国 | a power (i.e. a dominant country) | |
| 大山 | Dashan, stage name of Canadian Mark Henry Rowswell (1965-), actor and well-known TV person… | |
| 大水 | flood | |
| 中国人大 | China National People's Congress | |
| 大头 | big head; mask in the shape of a big head; the larger end of sth; the main part; the lion'… | |
| 头大 | to have a big head; (fig.) to get a headache; one's head is swimming | |
| 大心 | (Tw) considerate; thoughtful (from Taiwanese 貼心, Tai-lo pr. [tah-sim]) | |
| 大生 | (Tw) university student (abbr. for 大學生|大学生[da4 xue2 sheng1]) | |
| 中山大学 | Sun Yat-sen University (Guangzhou); Sun Yat-sen University (Kaohsiung); Sun Yat-sen Univer… | |
| 大地 | earth; mother earth |
Sound family
These characters use 大 as their sound component — compare how they read.