Jisho

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9 strokes
Radical:
sweet
Parts:
tremendously, very, great, exceedingly
Jōyō kanji, taught in junior high
JLPT level N1
1961 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers

Speed

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On reading compounds

  • 甚大 【ジンダイ】 very great, enormous, serious
  • 甚句 【ジンク】 jinku, lively Japanese folk song or dance tune
  • 激甚 【ゲキジン】 intense, violent, severe, vehement
  • 幸甚 【コウジン】 being extremely grateful, being much obliged, being very appreciative, being very happy

Kun reading compounds

  • 甚だ 【はなはだ】 very, greatly, extremely, exceedingly, highly, quite
  • 甚だしい 【はなはだしい】 extreme, excessive, terrible, intense, severe, serious, tremendous, heavy (damage)
  • 甚だしい 【はなはだしい】 extreme, excessive, terrible, intense, severe, serious, tremendous, heavy (damage)

Readings

Japanese names:
Mandarin Chinese (pinyin):
shen2, she2, shen4
Korean:
sim

Spanish

  • tremendamente
  • en extremo
  • intenso
  • grave

Portuguese

  • tremendamente
  • muito
  • grande
  • excessivamente

French

  • formidable
  • très
  • terriblement
  • excessivement
1449 A Guide To Remembering Japanese Characters (Kenneth G. Henshall)
1930 A New Dictionary of Kanji Usage
111 Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
1955 Essential Kanji (P.G. O’Neill)
1539 Japanese Kanji Flashcards (Max Hodges and Tomoko Okazaki)
1267 Japanese Names (P.G. O’Neill)
1501 Kanji and Kana (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
1600 Kanji and Kana, 2nd Edition (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
1756 Kanji in Context (Nishiguchi and Kono)
1326 Kodansha Compact Kanji Guide
3271 Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
1689 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
2296 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern)
1784 Les Kanjis dans la tete (Yves Maniette)
21648 Morohashi
2643 New Japanese English Character Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
3711 New Nelson (John Haig)
1768 Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
1905 Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
1282 Tuttle Kanji Cards (Alexander Kask)
1975 2001 Kanji
0a9.10 The Kanji Dictionary
2-6-3 SKIP code
4471.1 Four corner code
1-31-51 JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
751a Unicode hex code

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

Speed

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
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