Radical 37
Chinese character radical
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Radical 37 or radical big (大部) meaning "big", "great", or "very" is one of the 31 Kangxi radicals (214 radicals total) composed of three strokes.
| 大 | |
|---|---|
Radical 37
(U+2F24)
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| 大 (U+5927) "big, very" | |
| Pronunciations | |
| Pinyin: | dà |
| Bopomofo: | ㄉㄚˋ |
| Gwoyeu Romatzyh: | dah |
| Wade–Giles: | ta4 |
| Cantonese Yale: | daaih |
| Jyutping: | daai6 |
| Pe̍h-ōe-jī: | tāi |
| Japanese Kana: | ダイ dai / タイ tai (on'yomi) おお ō / おお-きい ō-kii (kun'yomi) |
| Sino-Korean: | 대 dae |
| Hán-Việt: | Đại |
| Names | |
| Chinese name(s): | (Top) 大字頭/大字头 dàzìtóu |
| Japanese name(s): | 大/だい dai (Top) 大頭/だいがしら daigashira (Top) 大冠/だいかんむり daikanmuri |
| Hangul: | 클 keul |
| Stroke order animation | |
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In the Kangxi Dictionary, there are 132 characters (out of 49,030) to be found under this radical.
大 is also the 33rd indexing component in the Table of Indexing Chinese Character Components predominantly adopted by Simplified Chinese dictionaries published in mainland China.
Evolution
Oracle bone script character
Bronze script character
Large seal script character
Small seal script character
Derived characters
| Strokes | Characters |
|---|---|
| +0 | 大 夨 |
| +1 | 天 太 夫 夬 夭 |
| +2 | 央 夯 夰 失 夲 夳 头SC (=頭 -> 頁) |
| +3 | 夵 夶 (=比 -> 比) 夷 夸 (also SC form of 誇 -> 言) 夹SC (=夾) 夺SC (=奪) 夻 夼 |
| +4 | 夽 夾 夿 奀 奁SC (=奩) 奂SC (=奐) |
| +5 | 奃 奄 奅 奆 奇 奈 奉 奋SC (=奮) 奌 (=點 -> 黑) 奍 奔 |
| +6 | 奎 奏 奐 契 奒 奓 奕 奖SC (=獎 -> 犬) |
| +7 | 奊 套 奘 奙 奚 |
| +8 | 奛 奜 奝 奞 奟 |
| +9 | 奠 奡 奢 奣 奤 奥SC/JP (=奧) |
| +10 | 奦 奧 奨JP (=獎 -> 犬) |
| +11 | 奩 奪 奫 奬 (=獎 -> 犬) |
| +12 | 奭 |
| +13 | 奮 奯 |
| +15 | 奰 |
| +19 | 奱 |
| +21 | 奲 |
Sinogram
The radical is also used as an independent Chinese character. It is one of the Kyōiku kanji or Kanji taught in elementary school in Japan.[1] It is a first grade kanji.[1]
