The 大 radical, “big”
Read dà. 3 strokes.
Here are 15 common characters that all carry this radical. It is painted red in each of them; what stays black is what tells them apart.
- tiān day
-
tóu head
- tài highest
- fū husband
- qí strange
- ào obscure
- tào to cover
-
jiǎng prize
- duó to seize
- fèn to exert oneself
- bèn towards
- nài used for its phonetic value in writing foreign words
- qì to carve
- kuā to boast
- yāng center
Stroke data from Make Me a Hanzi, derived from the Arphic PL fonts under the Arphic Public License.