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
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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

• 
  Oracle bone script character
• 
  Bronze script character
• 
  Large seal script character
• 
  Small seal script character

Derived characters

Strokes	Characters
+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]