巨
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very large; huge; tremendous; gigantic; (coll.) very; extremely
- HSK 3.0
- Level 4
- Old HSK
- Level 5
- Strokes
- 4
- Radical
- 工 +2
- Structure
- Left enclosure 左包
- Traditional
- 巨
- Common rank
- #935
- Unicode
- U+5DE8
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Formation & memory
Break the character into parts you already know.
How 巨 is formed
Ideographic compound (会意字)
A hand holding a large carpenter's square 工
Components 匚
? unknown part
How to remember it
gigantic · Heisig RSH #2681
box — as a component also called: giant
Keyword method from Heisig's Remembering Simplified Hanzi.
Words with 巨
The most common words first — learning a character in context makes it stick.
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 百眼巨人 | hundred-eyed monster | |
| 事无巨细 | lit. things are not separated according to their size (idiom); fig. to deal with any matte… | |
| 独眼巨人 | cyclops | |
| 红巨星 | red giant (star) | |
| 红超巨星 | red supergiant (star) | |
| 巨嘴沙雀 | (bird species of China) desert finch (Rhodospiza obsoleta) | |
| 巨大 | huge; immense; enormous; gigantic | |
| 巨子 | variant of 鉅子|巨子[ju4 zi3] | |
| 巨子 | (Mohism) master; leader; an authority; a prominent figure; tycoon; magnate | |
| 巨人 | giant | |
| 巨头 | tycoon; magnate; big player (including company, country, school etc); big shot | |
| 巨嘴鸟 | toucan | |
| 巨人观 | bloated corpse | |
| 巨细胞病毒 | cytomegalovirus (CMV) | |
| 巨野县 | Juye, a county in Heze City 菏澤市|菏泽市[He2 ze2 Shi4], Shandong | |
| 巨石 | huge rock; boulder; monolith | |
| 巨流 | strong current; CL:股[gu3] | |
| 巨龙 | gigantic dragon (lit. and fig.); titanosaur (abbr. for 泰坦巨龍|泰坦巨龙[tai4 tan3 ju4 long2]); (s… | |
| 巨量转移 | mass transfer (in LED panel manufacturing) | |
| 巨无霸指数 | Big Mac Index, a measure of the purchasing power parity (PPP) between currencies |
Sound family
These characters use 巨 as their sound component — compare how they read.