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

19 strokes
Radical:
grass 艸 (艹)
Parts:
seaweed, duckweed
Kun:
On:
ソウ
Jōyō kanji, taught in junior high
JLPT level N1
2124 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers

Speed

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On reading compounds

  • 藻類 【ソウルイ】 seaweed, algae
  • 藻菌類 【ソウキンルイ】 algal fungi
  • 海藻 【カイソウ】 seaweed
  • 石灰藻 【セッカイソウ】 calcareous algae

Kun reading compounds

  • 藻 【も】 algae, waterweed, seaweed, duckweed
  • 藻掻く 【もがく】 to struggle, to writhe, to wriggle, to squirm, to act frantically, to make desperate efforts
  • 山椒藻 【さんしょうも】 floating watermoss (Salvinia natans)
  • 菅藻 【すがも】 Phyllospadix iwatensis (species of seagrass)

Readings

Mandarin Chinese (pinyin):
zao3
Korean:
jo

Spanish

  • alga marina

Portuguese

  • algas
  • planta flutuante

French

  • algue
  • lentille d'eau
1531 A Guide To Remembering Japanese Characters (Kenneth G. Henshall)
2031 A New Dictionary of Kanji Usage
4098 Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
1710 Japanese Kanji Flashcards (Max Hodges and Tomoko Okazaki)
2837 Japanese Names (P.G. O’Neill)
1657 Kanji and Kana (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
1771 Kanji and Kana, 2nd Edition (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
1839 Kanji in Context (Nishiguchi and Kono)
674 Kodansha Compact Kanji Guide
3033 Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
1546 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
2116 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern)
2052 Les Kanjis dans la tete (Yves Maniette)
32401X Morohashi
2384 New Japanese English Character Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
5254 New Nelson (John Haig)
2035 Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
2191 Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
1920 Tuttle Kanji Cards (Alexander Kask)
1964 2001 Kanji
3k16.8 The Kanji Dictionary
2-3-16 SKIP code
4419.4 Four corner code
1-33-84 JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
85fb Unicode hex code