Chinese symbol for “big”
大
dà
big; large; great; older (than another person); eldest (as in 大姐 (dà jiě)); greatly; freely; fully
The closest CC-CEDICT match for big is 大 (dà), defined as: big; large; great; older (than another person); eldest (as in 大姐 (dà jiě)); greatly; freely; fully; (dialect) father; (dialect) uncle (father's brother).
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Characters and stroke order
Other Chinese words for “big”
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 伟 (偉) | wěi | big; large |
| 硕大 (碩大) | shuò dà | big; huge |
| 闳 (閎) | hóng | big; gate |
| 俣 (俁) | yǔ | big |
| 觥 | gōng | big; cup made of horn |
Related words
Other words that share a character with 大.
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 大学 (大學) | dà xué | university; college; measure word: 所 (suǒ) |
| 大家 | dà jiā | everyone; influential family |
| 大量 | dà liàng | great amount; large quantity |
| 大陆 (大陸) | dà lù | continent; mainland; 块 (kuài) |
| 大会 (大會) | dà huì | general assembly; general meeting |
| 重大 | zhòng dà | great; important |
See also: Japanese symbol for “big”.
Data: CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0); Unihan Database (Unicode License v3); Make Me a Hanzi (Arphic Public License (graphics.txt); LGPL-3.0-or-later (dictionary.txt)); wordfreq (CC BY-SA 4.0 (data)). Retrieved 2026-10-22.