Jisho

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3 strokes
Radical:
big, very
Parts:
large, big
Jōyō kanji, taught in grade 1
JLPT level N5
7 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers

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On reading compounds

  • 大 【ダイ】 large, big, great, huge, vast, major, important, serious, severe, great, prominent, eminent, distinguished, -sized, as big as, the size of, university, large (e.g. serving size), large option, long month (i.e. having 31 days)
  • 大尉 【タイイ】 captain (Army, US Marine Corps, USAF), lieutenant (Navy), flight lieutenant (RAF, RAAF, RNZAF, etc.)
  • 国大 【コクダイ】 national university
  • 電通大 【デンツウダイ】 University of Electro-Communications
  • 大 【タイ】 nth year in the Taishō era (1912.7.30-1926.12.25)
  • 大尉 【タイイ】 captain (Army, US Marine Corps, USAF), lieutenant (Navy), flight lieutenant (RAF, RAAF, RNZAF, etc.)
  • 御大 【オンタイ】 boss, governor, headman

Kun reading compounds

  • 大きい 【おおきい】 big, large, great, loud, extensive, spacious, important, decisive, valuable, older, grown up

Readings

Japanese names:
うふ、 お、 おう、 た、 たかし、 とも、 はじめ、 ひろ、 ひろし、 まさ、 まさる、 もと、 わ
Mandarin Chinese (pinyin):
da4, dai4
Korean:
dae, da, tae

Spanish

  • grande
  • muy
  • mucho

Portuguese

  • grande
  • enorme

French

  • grand
22 A Guide To Reading and Writing Japanese (Florence Sakade)
25 A Guide To Reading and Writing Japanese 3rd edition (Henshall, Seeley and De Groot)
53 A Guide To Remembering Japanese Characters (Kenneth G. Henshall)
7 A New Dictionary of Kanji Usage
1171 Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
32 Essential Kanji (P.G. O’Neill)
40 Japanese Kanji Flashcards (Max Hodges and Tomoko Okazaki)
48 Japanese Names (P.G. O’Neill)
2.2 Japanese for Busy People
26 Kanji and Kana (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
26 Kanji and Kana, 2nd Edition (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
87 Kanji in Context (Nishiguchi and Kono)
408 Kodansha Compact Kanji Guide
4224 Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
2133 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
2882 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern)
108 Les Kanjis dans la tete (Yves Maniette)
5831 Morohashi
3416 New Japanese English Character Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
1133 New Nelson (John Haig)
107 Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
112 Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
5 The Kanji Way to Japanese Language Power (Dale Crowley)
14 Tuttle Kanji Cards (Alexander Kask)
1463 2001 Kanji
0a3.18 The Kanji Dictionary
4-3-4 SKIP code
4003.0 Four corner code
1-34-71 JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
5927 Unicode hex code

16 strokes (also 17)
Radical:
grass 艸 (艹)
Parts:

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On reading compounds

  • 薔薇 【バラ】 rose
  • バラ色 【バライロ】 rose-colour, rose-color, bright (e.g. life, future, prospects), cheerful, rosy
  • 薔薇 【バラ】 rose
  • バラ油 【バラユ】 rose oil, rose otto
  • 薔薇 【バラ】 rose

Readings

Mandarin Chinese (pinyin):
qiang2
Korean:
jang, saeg

Spanish

Portuguese

French

4071 Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
32113X Morohashi
5220 New Nelson (John Haig)
3k13.20 The Kanji Dictionary
2-3-13 SKIP code
2-4-13 SKIP code
4460.1 Four corner code
1-73-12 JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
8594 Unicode hex code

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On reading compounds

  • 野薔薇 【ノイバラ】 multiflora rose (Rosa multiflora), baby rose, Japanese rose
  • 難波薔薇 【ナニワイバラ】 Cherokee rose (Rosa laevigata)
  • 冬薔薇 【フユソウビ】 winter rose

Kun reading compounds

  • 薇 【ぜんまい】 Japanese royal fern (Osmunda japonica), Asian royal fern, flowering fern
  • 城山薇 【しろやまぜんまい】 Osmunda banksiifolia (species of fern)

Readings

Mandarin Chinese (pinyin):
wei2, wei1
Korean:
mi

Spanish

Portuguese

French

4057 Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
32092 Morohashi
5209 New Nelson (John Haig)
3k13.13 The Kanji Dictionary
2-3-13 SKIP code
2-4-13 SKIP code
4424.8 Four corner code
1-73-15 JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
8587 Unicode hex code

8 strokes (also 9)
Radical:
grass 艸 (艹)
Parts:
Variants:

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Kun reading compounds

  • 苺 【いちご】 strawberry (esp. the garden strawberry, Fragaria x ananassa)
  • いちご飴 【いちごあめ】 candy-coated strawberry on a stick
  • 幌向苺 【ほろまいいちご】 cloudberry (Rubus chamaemorus)
  • 木苺 【きいちご】 raspberry (any plant of genus Rubus, esp. Rubus palmatus var. coptophyllus)

Readings

Mandarin Chinese (pinyin):
mei2
Korean:
mae

Spanish

Portuguese

French

3911 Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
2780 Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
1923 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern)
30824X Morohashi
4990 New Nelson (John Haig)
2350 Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
2438 Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
1947 2001 Kanji
3k5.4 The Kanji Dictionary
2-3-5 SKIP code
2-4-5 SKIP code
4450.7 Four corner code
1-71-85 JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
82fa Unicode hex code