Radical 37 or radical big (大部) meaning "big" or "very" is one of the 31 Kangxi radicals (214 radicals total) composed of three strokes.
| 大 | ||
|---|---|---|
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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
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Oracle bone script character -
Bronze script character -
Large seal script character -
Small seal script character
Derived characters
edit| 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
editThe 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]
References
edit- ^ a b "The Kyoiku Kanji (教育漢字) - Kanshudo". www.kanshudo.com. Archived from the original on March 24, 2022. Retrieved 2023-05-06.
Further reading
edit- Fazzioli, Edoardo (1987). Chinese calligraphy : from pictograph to ideogram : the history of 214 essential Chinese/Japanese characters. calligraphy by Rebecca Hon Ko. New York: Abbeville Press. ISBN 0-89659-774-1.
- Lunde, Ken (Jan 5, 2009). "Appendix J: Japanese Character Sets" (PDF). CJKV Information Processing: Chinese, Japanese, Korean & Vietnamese Computing (Second ed.). Sebastopol, Calif.: O'Reilly Media. ISBN 978-0-596-51447-1.
External links
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