大
Meaning
- big; large; great
- older (than another person)
- eldest (as in 大姐)
Example sentence
我家很大。
My house is big.
The character 大
大 is a person standing with both arms spread wide. Big in every sense — 大学, 大门, 大家 everyone, 大人 an adult — and it is read dà throughout the deck, though 大夫, a doctor, is dài.
Words containing 大
- 不大 bù dà not very (clear, far away etc); not too
- 大学 dà xué university; college
- 大学生 dà xué shēng university student; college student
- 大部分 dà bù fen the greater part; the majority; most
- 大大 dà dà greatly
- 大多数 dà duō shù (great) majority
- 大海 dà hǎi sea
- 大家 dà jiā everyone
- 大量 dà liàng great amount
- 大门 dà mén entrance
- 大人 dà ren adult
- 大声 dà shēng loud voice
- 大小 dà xiǎo large and small
- 大衣 dà yī overcoat
- 大自然 dà zì rán nature (the natural world)
- 长大 zhǎng dà to grow up
- 大概 dà gài roughly
- 大使馆 dà shǐ guǎn embassy
- 大约 dà yuē approximately
- 大夫 dài fu doctor; physician
- 广大 guǎng dà (of an area) vast or extensive
- 强大 qiáng dà big and strong; formidable; powerful
- 伟大 wěi dà huge; great; grand; worthy of the greatest admiration; important (contribution etc)
- 重大 zhòng dà great