| 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) |
大
Jōyō kanji, taught in grade 1
JLPT level N5
7 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers
Stroke order
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
- Korean:
- dae, da, tae
Spanish
- grande
- muy
- mucho
Portuguese
- grande
- enorme
French
- grand
| 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 |
Jōyō kanji, taught in grade 4
JLPT level N2
736 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers
Stroke order
On reading compounds
- 陸 【リク】 land, shore
- 陸海 【リクカイ】 land and sea, army and navy
- 北陸 【ホクリク】 Hokuriku region (of Honshu; incl. Niigata, Toyama, Ishikawa and Fukui prefectures)
- 内陸 【ナイリク】 inland
- 六 【ロク】 six, 6
- 碌 【ロク】 satisfactory, decent, good, proper, worthy
- 碌々 【ロクロク】 (not) well, (not) properly, (not) enough, (not) sufficiently
- 双六 【スゴロク】 race game (board game played with dice in which the object is to reach the end of a track), ban-sugoroku, sugoroku, traditional Japanese board game similar to backgammon
Kun reading compounds
- 陸 【りく】 land, shore
- 丘 【おか】 hill, height, knoll, rising ground, bonus points awarded to the winner at the end of a game
Readings
- Japanese names:
- くが、 たち、 みち、 む、 むつ
- Korean:
- ryug
Spanish
- tierra
Portuguese
- terra
French
- continent
- six
| 529 | A Guide To Reading and Writing Japanese (Florence Sakade) |
| 627 | A Guide To Reading and Writing Japanese 3rd edition (Henshall, Seeley and De Groot) |
| 597 | A Guide To Remembering Japanese Characters (Kenneth G. Henshall) |
| 651 | A New Dictionary of Kanji Usage |
| 5005 | Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson) |
| 193 | Essential Kanji (P.G. O’Neill) |
| 987 | Japanese Kanji Flashcards (Max Hodges and Tomoko Okazaki) |
| 1312 | Japanese Names (P.G. O’Neill) |
| 647 | Kanji and Kana (Spahn and Hadamitzky) |
| 657 | Kanji and Kana, 2nd Edition (Spahn and Hadamitzky) |
| 833 | Kanji in Context (Nishiguchi and Kono) |
| 740 | Kodansha Compact Kanji Guide |
| 659 | Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern) |
| 399 | Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary (Jack Halpern) |
| 496 | Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern) |
| 1527 | Les Kanjis dans la tete (Yves Maniette) |
| 41708 | Morohashi |
| 543 | New Japanese English Character Dictionary (Jack Halpern) |
| 6461 | New Nelson (John Haig) |
| 1513 | Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig) |
| 1631 | Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig) |
| 445 | The Kanji Way to Japanese Language Power (Dale Crowley) |
| 579 | Tuttle Kanji Cards (Alexander Kask) |
| 3672 | 2001 Kanji |
| 2d8.4 | The Kanji Dictionary |
| 1-3-8 | SKIP code |
| 1-2-8 | SKIP code |
| 7421.4 | Four corner code |
| 1-46-06 | JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code |
| 9678 | Unicode hex code |