Shareables · HSK 1 · 形 · Easy to confuse
形近 · Characters that look like 大
大 next to 太、犬、天 — one stroke apart, nothing else in common.
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大dàbig; large; great/older (than another person)/eldest (as in 姐)/greatly; freely; fully/(dialect) father/(dialect) uncle (father's brother)/see 夫
形近字 · LOOK ALIKE, READ DIFFERENTLY
Same shape at a glance. Different sound, different meaning.
| Character | Reading | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 大 | dà | big; large; great/older (than another person)/eldest (as in 姐)/greatly; freely; fully/(dialect) father/(dialect) uncle (father's brother)/see 夫 |
| 太 | tài | highest/greatest/too (much)/very/extremely |
| 犬 | quǎn | dog/Kangxi radical 94 |
| 天 | tiān | day/sky/heaven |
| 夫 | fū | husband/man/manual worker/conscripted laborer (old)/(classical) this, that/he, she, they/(exclamatory final particle)/(initial particle, introduces an opinion) |
| 火 | huǒ | surname Huo/fire/urgent/ammunition/fiery or flaming/internal heat (Chinese medicine)/hot (popular)/classifier for military units (old) |
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