Radical 37

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
Radical 37 (U+2F24)
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

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

Derived characters

StrokesCharacters
+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]

References

  1. "The Kyoiku Kanji (教育漢字) - Kanshudo". www.kanshudo.com. Archived from the original on March 24, 2022. Retrieved 2023-05-06.

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