Radical 37

{{Infobox Kangxi radical|37

| uni = 5927

| meaning = big, very

| pny = dà

| bopo = ㄉㄚˋ

| gr = dah

| wade = ta⁴

| jyutping = daai6

| yale = daaih

| poj = tāi

| cn = (Top) 大字頭/大字头 dàzìtóu

| onyomi = ダイ dai / タイ tai

| kunyomi = おお ō / おお-きい ō-kii

| jp = 大/だい dai
(Top) 大頭/だいがしら daigashira
(Top) 大冠/だいかんむり daikanmuri

| hang = 클 keul

| hanja = 대 dae

| hanviet = Đại

}}

Radical 37 or radical big ({{Lang|zh-Hant|大部}}) meaning "big" or "very" is one of the 31 Kangxi radicals (214 radicals total) composed of three strokes.

In the Kangxi Dictionary, there are 132 characters (out of 49,030) to be found under this radical.

{{Lang|zh-Hans|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

File:大-oracle.svg|Oracle bone script character

File:大-bronze.svg|Bronze script character

File:大-bigseal.svg|Large seal script character

File:大-seal.svg|Small seal script character

Derived characters

class="wikitable" ! Strokes !! Characters
+0	style="font-size: large;" \| {{Linktext\|大}} {{Linktext\|夨}}
+1	style="font-size: large;" \| {{Linktext\|天}} {{Linktext\|太}} {{Linktext\|夫}} {{Linktext\|夬}} {{Linktext\|夭}}
+2	style="font-size: large;" \| {{Linktext\|央}} {{Linktext\|夯}} {{Linktext\|夰}} {{Linktext\|失}} {{Linktext\|夲}} {{Linktext\|夳}} {{Linktext\|头}}^SC (={{Linktext\|頭}} -> 頁)
+3	style="font-size: large;" \| {{Linktext\|夵}} {{Linktext\|夶}} (={{Linktext\|比}} -> 比) {{Linktext\|夷}} {{Linktext\|夸}} (also SC form of {{Linktext\|誇}} -> 言) {{Linktext\|夹}}^SC (=夾) {{Linktext\|夺}}^SC (=奪) {{Linktext\|夻}} {{Linktext\|夼}}
+4	style="font-size: large;" \| {{Linktext\|夽}} {{Linktext\|夾}} {{Linktext\|夿}} {{Linktext\|奀}} {{Linktext\|奁}}^SC (=奩) {{Linktext\|奂}}^SC (=奐)
+5	style="font-size: large;" \| {{Linktext\|奃}} {{Linktext\|奄}} {{Linktext\|奅}} {{Linktext\|奆}} {{Linktext\|奇}} {{Linktext\|奈}} {{Linktext\|奉}} {{Linktext\|奋}}^SC (=奮) {{Linktext\|奌}} (={{Linktext\|點}} -> 黑) {{Linktext\|奍}} {{Linktext\|奔}}
+6	style="font-size: large;" \| {{Linktext\|奎}} {{Linktext\|奏}} {{Linktext\|奐}} {{Linktext\|契}} {{Linktext\|奒}} {{Linktext\|奓}} {{Linktext\|奕}} {{Linktext\|奖}}^SC (={{Linktext\|獎}} -> 犬)
+7	style="font-size: large;" \| {{Linktext\|奊}} {{Linktext\|套}} {{Linktext\|奘}} {{Linktext\|奙}} {{Linktext\|奚}}
+8	style="font-size: large;" \| {{Linktext\|奛}} {{Linktext\|奜}} {{Linktext\|奝}} {{Linktext\|奞}} {{Linktext\|奟}}
+9	style="font-size: large;" \| {{Linktext\|奠}} {{Linktext\|奡}} {{Linktext\|奢}} {{Linktext\|奣}} {{Linktext\|奤}} {{Linktext\|奥}}^SC/JP (=奧)
+10	style="font-size: large;" \| {{Linktext\|奦}} {{Linktext\|奧}} {{Linktext\|奨}}^JP (={{Linktext\|獎}} -> 犬)
+11	style="font-size: large;" \| {{Linktext\|奩}} {{Linktext\|奪}} {{Linktext\|奫}} {{Linktext\|奬}} (={{Linktext\|獎}} -> 犬)
+12	style="font-size: large;" \| {{Linktext\|奭}}
+13	style="font-size: large;" \| {{Linktext\|奮}} {{Linktext\|奯}}
+15	style="font-size: large;" \| {{Linktext\|奰}}
+19	style="font-size: large;" \| {{Linktext\|奱}}
+21	style="font-size: large;" \| {{Linktext\|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.{{Cite web |title=The Kyoiku Kanji (教育漢字) - Kanshudo |url=https://www.kanshudo.com/collections/kyoiku_kanji |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220324010221/https://www.kanshudo.com/collections/kyoiku_kanji |archive-date=March 24, 2022 |access-date=2023-05-06 |website=www.kanshudo.com}} It is a first grade kanji.

References

External links

[https://www.unicode.org/cgi-bin/GetUnihanData.pl?codepoint=5927 Unihan Database - U+5927]

Category:Kyōiku kanji

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