Radical 37
大 | ||
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36 ⼣ ◄ | 37 | ► ⼥ 38 |
Pinyin : | dà (= large) | |
Zhuyin : | ㄉ ㄚ ˋ | |
Hiragana : | だ い dai | |
Kanji : | 大 ôkii, dai (= large) | |
Hangul : | 큰 | |
Sinocorean : | 대 dae (= large) | |
Codepoint : | U + 5927 5928 |
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Stroke sequence : |
Radical 37 , meaning “ large ”, is one of 31 of the 214 traditional radicals in Chinese writing , which consist of three strokes.
A very rare spelling variant is 夨.
The seal mark shows a person standing upright. Xu Shen , the inventor of the radical system, explained 大 in his work Shuowen jiezi as follows:
"The sky is big, the earth is big, so is man, and therefore 大 looks great as a person."
When 大 functions as a bearer of meaning in compound signs, it often creates a connection with people or with size. The sky 天 is represented with a line above the person 大.
Character combinations ruled by radical 37
Strokes | character |
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+ | 0大 夨
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+ | 1
天太 夫 夬 夭
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+ | 2央 夯 夰 失 夲 夳 头
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+ | 3买 夵 夶 夷 夸 夹 夺 夻 夼
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+ | 4夽 夾 夿 奀 奁 奂
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+ | 5奃 奄 奅 奆 奇 奈 奉 奋 奌 奍 奔
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+ | 6奊 奎 奏 奐 契 奒 奓 奕 奖
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+ | 7套 奘 奙 奚
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+ | 8奛 奜 奝 奞 奟
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+ | 9奠 奡 奢 奣 奤 奥
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+10 | 奦 奧 奨
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+11 | 奩 奪 奫 奬
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+12 | 奭
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+13 | 奮 奯
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+15 | 奰
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+19 | 奱
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+21 | 奲 |
In the Unicode block Kangxi radicals , radical 37 is coded under the code point number 12.068 (U + 2F24).
literature
- Edoardo Fazzioli : Painted Words. 214 Chinese characters - from picture to concept . Marixverlag, Wiesbaden 2004, ISBN 3-937715-34-7 , p. 243 .
- Cecilia Lindqvist : A world of signs - about the Chinese and their writing . Droemer Knaur, Munich 1990, ISBN 3-426-26482-X , p. 27 .
- For detailed references, see List of Traditional Radicals: Literature
Web links
Commons : Radikal 37 - Graphic representations of Radikal 37
Wiktionary: 大 - Explanations of meanings, word origins, synonyms, translations
- Xiù cai.oai.de (PDF; 1.72 MB) Explanation of Radikal 37 on page 28