Radical 37

大
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
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

Illumination in Kyoto

Seal script characters

Strokes	character
+ 00	大 夨
+ 01	天太 夫 夬 夭
+ 02	央 夯 夰 失 夲 夳 头
+ 03	买 夵 夶 夷 夸 夹 夺 夻 夼
+ 04	夽 夾 夿 奀 奁 奂
+ 05	奃 奄 奅 奆 奇 奈 奉 奋 奌 奍 奔
+ 06	奊 奎 奏 奐 契 奒 奓 奕 奖
+ 07	套 奘 奙 奚
+ 08	奛 奜 奝 奞 奟
+ 09	奠 奡 奢 奣 奤 奥
+10	奦 奧 奨
+11	奩 奪 奫 奬
+12	奭
+13	奮 奯
+15	奰
+19	奱
+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