The corpus record — Literary Chinese

大

dà

big, great, vast, large, high

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Where it lives

Daodejing (Wang Bi recension) 151 · 85.84/10k
Zhuangzi, Inner Chapters 74 · 53.7/10k
Mencius 165 · 46.53/10k
Analects (Lunyu) 49 · 30.58/10k

What it meant — Unihan character definitions

big, great, vast, large, high

In the wild

大 Daodejing (Wang Bi recension) 十三章
大 Daodejing (Wang Bi recension) 十三章
大 Daodejing (Wang Bi recension) 十三章
大 Daodejing (Wang Bi recension) 十三章
大 Daodejing (Wang Bi recension) 十三章
大 Daodejing (Wang Bi recension) 十三章

6 of 439 attestations shown.

Chinese texts (Daodejing, Analects, Zhuangzi, Mencius) are public domain by age; transcriptions from Kanripo and Wikisource (CC BY-SA 4.0). Readings via Unicode Unihan (Unicode License v3).