大 dà

1. dà adjective big; huge; large
   Domain: Modern Chinese 现代汉语 , Subdomain: Scale
   Notes: Middle Chinese: daH; the opposite of 小 'small'. For example, 大规模 'large scale.' Note that adjectives of size, like 大, must precede adjectives relating to shape. For example, 大黑马 'large black horse' (ABC 'dà' sv 1; CED '大' 1; GHC '大' 1; Guoyu '大' adj 1; Kroll 2015 '大' 1; NCCED '大' 1; Sun 2006, loc. 1766).
2. dà noun Kangxi radical 37
   Domain: Modern Chinese 现代汉语 , Subdomain: Radicals
   Notes: (ABC back cover; GHC p. 7; Guoyu '大' n 4)
3. dà adjective great; major; important
   Domain: Modern Chinese 现代汉语
   Notes: (Guoyu '大' adj 4)
4. dà noun size
   Domain: Modern Chinese 现代汉语 , Subdomain: Scale
   Notes: For example, what is the size of the dog? 狗多大？(CED '大'; NCCED '大' 2)
5. dà adjective old
   Domain: Modern Chinese 现代汉语 , Subdomain: Time
   Notes: In the sense of 年长 (ABC 'dà' sv 3; CED '大' 6; GHC '大' 4; Guoyu '大' adj 2; NCCED '大' 2). For example, as a very old age 年龄很大.
6. dà adverb greatly; very
   Domain: Modern Chinese 现代汉语 , Subdomain: Scale
   Notes: For example, greatly terrified 大怖 (ABC 'dà' v 1; CED '大' 7; GHC '大' 6; Guoyu '大' adv 1; NCCED '大' 4)
7. dà adjective oldest; earliest
   Domain: Modern Chinese 现代汉语
   Notes: In this use, 大 is a 指大 'augmentative' prefix (Crystal 2008, 'augmentative'; Sun 2006, loc. 695). For example, big sister 大姐 (CED '大' 10; GHC '大' 5; Guoyu '大' adj 5; NCCED '大' 5)
8. dà noun adult
   Domain: Modern Chinese 现代汉语
   Notes: As in 大人 (Guoyu '大' n 2; NCCED '大' 6)
9. tài adverb greatest; grand
   Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
   Notes: Same as 太 (GHC '大' 7; Guoyu '大' tài; Kroll 2015 '大')
10. dài noun an important person
    Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
    Notes: As in 大夫 'doctor' (ABC 'dài'; CED '大'; Guoyu '大' dài; NCCED '大')
11. dà adjective senior
    Domain: Modern Chinese 现代汉语
    Notes: (Guoyu '大' adj 3)
12. dà adverb approximately
    Domain: Modern Chinese 现代汉语
    Notes: As in 大概 (Guoyu '大' adv 4)
13. tài adverb greatest; grand
    Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
    Notes: Same as 太 (GHC '大' 7; Kroll 2015 '大')

Contained in

• 四大须生(四大鬚生) Four great beards in opera
• 大难(大難) great catastrophe
• 大比目鱼(大比目魚) halibut
• 浩大 vast; great; large amount
• 大氅 an overcoat; a down overcoat
• 宏大 huge; great; grand; massive
• 时大时小(時大時小) sometimes big, sometimes small; varying
• 大气圈(大氣圈) atmosphere
• 大德 most virtuous ; Dade reign ; a major festival ; most virtuous; bhadanta ; Great Virtue; Yaññadatta
• 大略 broadly; generally; roughly ; approximately; roughly
• 大长嘴地鸫(大長嘴地鶇) long-billed thrush (Zoothera monticola)
• 大渡河 Dadu River
• 小时了了，大未必佳(小時了了，大未必佳) being bright at an early age does not necessarily bring success upon growing up
• 师范大学(師範大學) normal university; teacher-training college
• 加大 to increase
• 石投大海 to disappear like a stone dropped into the sea; to vanish forever without trace
• 大墓地 necropolis
• 大老远(大老遠) very far away
• 久闻大名(久聞大名) your name has been known to me for a long time (polite)
• 大有文章 some deeper meaning in this; more to it than meets the eye; there's something behind all this
• 大气环流(大氣環流) atmospheric circulation
• 大理 Dali [kingdom] ; Superintendent of Law Enforcement ; a major principle; a general truth ; Dali [county]
• 大大小小 large and small; of all sizes
• 大愚 idiot; ignorant fool
• 摄护腺肿大(攝護腺腫大) benign prostate hypertrophy; enlargement of prostate
• 大作 your work (book, musical composition etc) ; to erupt; to begin abruptly
• 大队(大隊) a regiment; a group
• 加利福尼亚大学洛杉矶分校(加利福尼亞大學洛杉磯分校) UCLA
• 正大光明 just and honorable
• 大氧吧 source of oxygen (of forests and nature reserves); (cliché) lungs of the planet
• 年度大会(年度大會) annual meeting; annual general meeting (AGM)
• 百年大计(百年大計) a project of vital and lasting importance

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• 春官宗伯 第三 3. Office of Spring and Minister of Rites Rites of Zhou 周禮 — count: 105
• 卷20　志第15 天文中 Volume 20 Treatises 15: Astronomy 2 Book of Sui 隋書 — count: 102
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Collocations

• 小大 (小大) 政有小大 — The Book of Songs 詩經, 序 Preface — count: 7
• 大任 (大任) 大任有身 — The Book of Songs 詩經, 大雅‧文王之什‧大明 Greater odes of the kingdom - Decade Of Wen Wang - Da Ming — count: 4
• 大平 (大平) 大平也 — The Book of Songs 詩經, 大雅‧生民之什‧既醉 Greater odes of the kingdom - Decade Of Sheng Min - Ji Jiu — count: 3
• 大乱 (大亂) 小不忍以致大亂焉 — The Book of Songs 詩經, 國風‧鄭‧將仲子 Lessons from the states - Odes of Zheng - Jiang Zhong Zi — count: 3
• 大康 (大康) 無已大康 — The Book of Songs 詩經, 國風‧唐‧蟋蟀 Lessons from the states - Odes of Tang - Xi Shuai — count: 3
• 大坏 (大壞) 召穆公傷周室大壞也 — The Book of Songs 詩經, 大雅‧蕩之什‧蕩 Greater odes of the kingdom - Decade Of Dang - Dang — count: 3
• 幽王大 (幽王大) 凡伯刺幽王大壞也 — The Book of Songs 詩經, 大雅‧蕩之什‧瞻卬 Greater odes of the kingdom - Decade Of Dang - Zhan Yang — count: 2
• 大木 (大木) 大木斯拔 — Book of Documents 尚書, 周書 金縢 Zhou Shu - Metal-bound Coffer — count: 2
• 大赉 (大賚) 予其大賚汝 — Book of Documents 尚書, 商書 湯誓 Shang Shu - Speech of Tang — count: 2
• 大祖 (大祖) 南仲大祖 — The Book of Songs 詩經, 大雅‧蕩之什‧常武 Greater odes of the kingdom - Decade Of Dang - Chang Wu — count: 2