大

big

Builds 191 distinct compound words — ranked #6 of 100 for productivity.

音 on: ダイ・タイ
訓 kun: おお.きい

Big, and by extension important or serious — 大学 university, 大事 important, 大変 awful. A very common intensifier.

The ten most common compounds built on 大. Tap any word that leads to another mapped character to follow it.

191compounds built

5,184times those words occur

#4by productivity alone

#17by how often it turns up

Where 大 leads

Other characters from the top 100 that share a word with 大. Each one opens its own map.

人person大人#1 学study; learning大学#15 切cut; earnest大切#51 好like; good大好き#72

Words built on 大

大変たいへん647 uses

大きなおおきな540 uses

大学だいがく361 uses

大きいおおきい252 uses

大切たいせつ186 uses

大抵たいてい180 uses

偉大いだい163 uses

大統領だいとうりょう154 uses

大阪おおさか130 uses

大好きだいすき130 uses

Counts from the Tanaka Corpus index via Tatoeba, 1,178,504 words of segmented Japanese. Tatoeba sentences are contributed by learners and teachers, so frequencies reflect textbook Japanese rather than a general corpus. Compound readings are generated — from the corpus where it records one, otherwise from a tokenizer — and are omitted rather than guessed where neither resolves the word. Character meanings and on/kun readings are written by hand.