大

big

No. 15 most used · 0.31% of everyday spoken Chinese: about 1 character in every 325.

Also read: dài 大夫

How it's built

• 一one
• 人person

A way to remember it

A person (人) stretching out both arms (一): this big!

Words

• 大家

  dà jiā

  everyone; influential family; great expert
• 大概

  dà gài

  roughly; probably; rough
• 大人

  dà ren

  adult; grownup; title of respect toward superiors
• 伟大

  wěi dà

  huge; great; grand; worthy of the greatest admiration; important (contribution etc)
• 大学

  dà xué

  university; college; CL:所
• 老大

  lǎo dà

  old age; very; eldest child in a family

Sentences

• 中国比日本大得多。

  zhōng guó bǐ rì běn dà de duō

  China is much larger than Japan.
• 他不是意大利人吗？

  tā bú shì yì dà lì rén ma

  Isn't he Italian?
• 大号的还是中号的？

  dà hào de hái shi zhōng hào de

  A large or medium-sized one?
• 大家都是这样想的。

  dà jiā dōu shì zhè yàng xiǎng de

  Everybody thinks so.

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How often characters are written: wordfreq by Robyn Speer, CC BY-SA 4.0, with data from Google Books Ngrams and SUBTLEX by Marc Brysbaert and others. Meanings: CC-CEDICT, CC BY-SA 4.0. Sentences: Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR. How often they're said: FrequencyWords and OPUS, from OpenSubtitles.