大 (daai6 | da4 dai4) : big

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大

daai6

da4 dai4

[1] big; vast; large [2] great [3] much [4] very; highly; extremely; really [5] your (politely) [6] the eldest; senior [7] full-grown; [n] adult [8] before; after (referring to dates only) [9] [v] make large; make great [10] a Chinese family name

The Mandarin /dai4/ is used in the term 大夫, meaning "doctor".

Default PoS:

Stroke count: 3

Level: 1

Radical: 大 (#37)

This character is used in both Cantonese and Mandarin/Standard written Chinese.

大

Don't confuse with:
太犬丈

This character was added by sheik on 18th Mar 2007 21:22 and last edited on 23rd Jul 2009 05:49

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大風 daai6 fung1 da4 feng1 = strong wind

大人 daai6 jan4 da4 ren2 = adult

大家 daai6 gaa1 da4 jia1 = everybody

大力 daai6 lik6 da4 li4 = strong (muscular)

大方 daai6 fong1 da4 fang5 = generous; liberal

長大 zoeng2 daai6 zhang3 da4 = to grow; to grow up

大日子 daai6 jat6 zi2 = important date; red letter day

落大雨 lok6 daai6 jyu5 = to rain heavily

大口 daai6 hau2 da4 kou3 = big mouth, large mouth

大小 daai6 siu2 da4 xiao3 = size, proportions
See all 1117 compounds (CantoDict reports 1153 compounds in total, but some may be Common Formations)

Showing 10 of 45 examples containing 大

呢間大學好有名㗎！? 粵
This university is very famous!

佢個鼻好大粵
He has a big nose.
[Lit. his nose very big.]

千祈唔好講大話。粵
Don't ever tell lies.

你個仔係唔係喺大學讀緊書? 粵
Is your son studying in university?

我就快搬去棟新大廈
I will move to a new building soon.

希望大家有個輕鬆悠閑嘅聖誕節粵
I hope we have a relaxing Christmas.

希望大家過個輕鬆悠閒的聖誕節國
I hope we have a relaxing Christmas.

喺聖誕節，我哋會大宴親朋粵
At Christmas we will have a big party.

我們聖誕節當天要辦個大聚會國
On Christmas Day we will have a big party.

兜咗一個大緙粵
Move in a big round circle.

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Decimal representation of this word: 大
Unicode code for this character: U+5927 (off-site link)

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