だい
Meanings
Noun
1. おおきいこと。
2. 一人前のおとなであること。
3. 程度がはなはだしいこと。
4. 大便の略。
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① ほとんど全部。大抵。② ほぼその数量であるさま。③ そもそも。
considerably; greatly; a lot
safe; secure; certainly; surely; no thanks; I'm good
① : 重大な事柄。② : 大がかりな企て。③ : 心配な事態。④ : 念入りな配慮。自重。用心。⑤ : 大切に扱うこと、扱うべきこと。⑥ : 重要なこと。成否がかかっていること。
loveable; very likeable; like very much
considerably; greatly; a lot
exceptionally large
great; grand; magnificent; outstanding; mighty
① 度胸があって、物事を恐れずに思い切ってやってのけること。
very big; very large; taking up a lot of space
① 「大根」のひらがな表記。
outrageous; monstrous; appalling; inordinate; overambitious
① 数や量が大きいこと。
vast; huge; immense; malva nut (Sterculia lychnophora)
① 規模が大きくて優れていること。
detestable; abhorrent; loathsome
① 学問の研究と教授にあたる高等教育機関。② 古代日本の律令制における官吏養成機関、の略。③ 中国における儒教の経典のひとつ。著者・成立年未詳。
junior college; vocationally oriented two or three year post-secondary education institution
shouting in a thunderous voice
great fortune; good luck; rice cake stuffed with bean jam
① 心が寛く大らかであること。他者の罪や落ち度、異論などを無闇に咎め立てしないこと。
① だいたい同じであること。② 同じ目的を持つものが大勢集まって一つの集団になること。
① 長く大きな刀剣の総称。② 刃を下に向け腰に吊り下げる、長く大きな刀剣。
size; large and small (sizes); various sizes; daishō (matched pair of long and short swords); large and small drums; long months and short months; sic bo (Macao dice game)
excessive; too much; unreasonable
grand; magnificent; majestic; great; sublime
very loud voice
① 共和国の元首。アメリカ合衆国のように行政府の長を兼ねるものや、ドイツやイタリアのように権限が限定されたもの、逆にロシアやフランスのように非常に大きな権限を持つものがある。
huge success
① 最も規模が大きいこと。② 最も多いこと。③ 最も程度がはなはだしいこと。
large temple edifice; large temple
warm welcome
Mahavairocana (Tathagata); Great Sun; Supreme Buddha of Sino-Japanese esoteric Buddhism
to come to like a lot; to fall in love
① 小説・劇などの最後の部分。
excellent; very good; exultant; elated
high priest of a great shrine
excellent luck
terrible luck; very bad luck
① 立派な男性。
bang on the money; spot on; right answer
great adventure
fist-sized
large rock; huge rock; being rock-solid; holding firm; being adamant
the big two...; two major...; two main...
great debt of gratitude; great obligation
Great Bodhisattva Hachiman (title of Hachiman due to Shinto-Buddhist syncretism)
① 古代、宮都で内裏と諸官庁のあった区域。
big snake; serpent
major earthquake; large earthquake
O Great God of Arms, I beseech your aid against my enemy!
major incident; major happening; big scandal
large explosion
① 長く大きいこと。② 背丈。
heavy flooding; disastrous flood; deluge; great flood (sent by a deity); flood myth
great disaster; calamity
university student; college student
the whole universe (of a billion worlds) that Buddha enlightened
large-scale
① 石灰岩が高熱又は高圧等を受けて変質し、方解石の集合塊となってできた粗粒の結晶質石灰岩。晶質石灰岩。② 語義1の石灰質の岩石は勿論、火成岩・水成岩を問わず均質の硬度を有し研磨して装飾石材として用いられるものの総称。
① とても好きな食べ物や飲み物。大好きな好物。
loud shout; excited cheering
large-scale operation; large-scale campaign; major mission
① 富豪の中でも特にたくさんの財産を持つ人。② トランプを使った日本の遊び。3を最も弱く、2を最も強いカードとして扱い、場にすでに出ているカードよりも強いカードを手札からだし、最初に手札を空にした競技者を勝者とする。数多くの追加ルールがあることで知られる。③ 語義2の遊びにおいて、最も早く上がった人に与えられる階級。
(in) dire straits; (in a) serious bind; (in a) big pinch
heavy loss
loud sound; loud reverberation
Great Japan
large tengu; powerful tengu; big braggart; blowhard
big athletic meet (esp. at school); sports day; field day
coarse; rough; bulky
complete freedom; great freedom; great unhinderedness
Great Perfection of Wisdom Sutra
double size
① 中国古代の書体である篆書の一種。秦始皇帝による書体の統一がなされる前の書体で、統一後の「小篆」に対する語。起源は周代、太史籀(チュウ) が作ったと伝えられる籀文、籀書に求められるが、古代中国の戦国各国において独自に発展したため、多くの異体字が存在する。
serious; important; significant; grave; weighty
most part; greater part; majority
very popular; highly favoured
big problem
being very active; being very useful; playing a very active part; making a spectacular showing; great efforts; splendid work
commander-in-chief; Taishōgun; one of the eight gods of the koyomi
① 非常に急を要するさま。
completely satisfied; as pleased as can be
big fan (of something or someone); great fan
① 大差で圧倒的に勝つこと。
fist-sized
metropolis; big city
① 女子大学の略。
university of arts; arts college
① 全軍を統率する総大将② 大日本帝国憲法(帝国憲法、明治憲法)における旧日本軍(陸海軍)の統率者としての天皇。
great popularity; sensation; good reputation
great love; passionate affair
Great Depression
severe famine
essentially the same with only minor differences
realization of a great ambition; realisation of a great ambition
① 大きな悪事。② 大悪人。
immense; enormous
the Tripitaka (complete Buddhist canon)
large; big; grown (man, etc.); great (friend, etc.); huge (football fan, etc.)
macrocyclic; large ring
① 大学に在籍している学生。
① 増えて大きくなること。
chaos; turmoil; pandemonium; havoc
university or college offering four-year programs; the big four ...; the four major ...
① あることを論じるために必要な根本的な前提。
massive failure; debacle; fiasco
① 大隊の長。
life-size; life-sized; true-to-life; faithful (depiction); realistic
great success; roaring business; busy; packed-out
serious damage; injury or loss; heavy blow
scum of the earth; monster; fiend
large monster (Japanese film genre)
great tumult; great strife; big loud bang; bustle; dirdum; hell broken loose
complete agreement
college of the arts; university of the arts; art university
large character; large writing; the (kanji) character "dai" meaning "big"; huge character "dai" formed by fires lit on the side of a mountain in Kyoto on August 16 each year
someone who is greatly one's senior; veteran
macrocosmos; macrocosm; the universe; the cosmos
serious accident; major incident
great inconvenience; great deal of trouble; big nuisance; royal pain in the behind
great benefactor; person to whom one is greatly indebted
high treason
archbishop (Orthodox, Anglican, etc.)
great earthquake (disaster); Great Kanto earthquake of 1923
makeover; major change
great virtue; virtuous priest; priest; rich person
(gymnastical) giant swing; all-out effort; frenzied activity
peaceful death
great writer; major writer
Great Leap Forward (failed attempt to industrialize China and increase agricultural production, from 1958-1960); significant breakthrough; great strides
Summer Triangle (asterism)
old-fashioned; antiquated; anachronistic
broad policy; overriding principle
the Grand Shrine at Ise
① 律令制における群司の長。② 大国の領主。
major progress; huge advance
full court; grand bench of the supreme court
greater omentum; caul
big match; big game; important match; important game
avarice
patient in a serious condition; serious case
① 大便と小便。
swelling
egg-sized
large-scale (mechanized, mechanised) farming; wealthy farmer
adarsa-jnana (great-perfect-mirror wisdom, wisdom clearly elucidating all things)
loudly reciting Amithaba's name
great mandala (in Shingon); mandala with an image of each deity
major revision
grand kagura performance at Ise
macrospore
① 一定の年齢に達した人。現代日本では18歳または20歳以上の人。成人。② 年齢を重ね、十分な判断力を有し、社会的な責任を負えるとみなされるようになった人。ものごとの理非をよくわきまえ、わがままを言わない人。③ 年齢を重ね、特定の行為が可能となったり感覚が理解できるようになったりした人。④ 聞き分けよくおとなしくしていること。⑤ 性的に成熟した人。精通または初潮のあった人。童貞または処女を失った人。また性に関する換喩。
① に対して、地上。広大な土地。
① 軍隊で将官の位。中将の上。② ある集団のかしら。③ 親方。④ 人を親しい気持ちで呼ぶ言葉。⑤ 剣道や柔道など武道の団体戦における殿。
① 強くて大きいこと。
① 王を敬って言う語。
① この上なく大きいさま。
serious crime; grave sin
large front gate
① 軍隊の編制上の単位の一つ。中隊の上、連隊の下。
one large ...; a great ...
archbishop (Catholic)
the big three ...
leading aristocrat; great house; grand seigneur; boyar
① あるまとまりのうちの殆ど全部。
haughty; arrogant; pompous; self-important
large public bath
great disaster; horrible tragedy; catastrophe; catastrophic event; catastrophic incident; dire calamity
metropolis; large city
large company; large enterprise; large corporation
very loud volume; megavolume
① 偉大な自然。
maximum; local maximum
archangel
① 大きな仏像。
① 大学の学部の上に位置して学術の研究を行い、また所属する学生に学問を授ける高等教育機関。
big hit; smash hit; popular item (e.g. movie, music)
great disaster
great teacher (i.e. a buddha, bodhisattva or high monk, esp. Kobo Daishi)
breakthrough; great discovery
holding a sword above one's head (kendo posture); haughty attitude; overbearing manner
great teacher; great master; great author; great doctor
large stage; grand stage; the big stage; grand setting
the five elements (in Japanese philosophy: earth, water, fire, wind and void); five great wisdom kings
① 人数が多い家族。② 夫婦とその子だけでなく、それ以外の親族やその配偶者を含む家族。
medical school
(one's) father-in-law; (one's) employer; master; principal supporter of a temple; influential temple parishioner
thunderous roar of laughter (from multiple people); loud burst of laughter; explosive laughter
big craze; boom; popular trend; widespread contagion; large outbreak
battalion; large force
main street; avenue
very highly commended; highly lauded; very well-received; very popular
college of music
major war; great war; world war
big treat; great offer
great plain; prairie; steppe; hahahaha; LMAO; ROFL
massacre; mass slaughter; genocide; holocaust
dramatic turn-around; major reversal; great comeback; game changer
① 大きな弓の総称。② 石を飛ばす際に用いられた大きな弓。
the six elements (earth, water, fire, wind, void, and consciousness)
aorta; (fig.) important traffic route
large hall
best friend; very close friend
① 戦時または事変の時に設置された天皇に直属する最高統帥機関。
① 大金持ち。富豪。② 遊郭で豪遊する客。
large hospital; major hospital
cerebrum
to emphasize; to state emphatically; to speak loudly about; to raise one's voice; to lift one's voice
strong opposition
Great Japan
rave reviews; extremely high praise
the four elements (earth, water, fire, wind); the human body; Tao, heaven, earth and king
① 消化器官の一部。小腸と肛門の間にあり、細菌による食物繊維の発酵、及び一部の栄養素の吸収と水分の吸収、また、便が排泄されるまでの間、貯留する機能を有する。盲腸、虫垂、結腸及び直腸からなる。
large screen (TV, film, etc.)
big talk; braggadocio
great man; magnanimous man
large enterprise; big business; large undertaking
high capacity
① 大乗仏教のこと。
black-bellied plover; grey plover (Pluvialis squatarola)
pectoralis major muscle
overriding principle; main principle; great principle
educational facility established in affiliation with a government agency
crowd (e.g. of spectators); huge audience
explosive increase (in number of pests); (severe) outbreak or upsurge of pests
supreme wisdom; sage
university graduate; having graduated from university
to say it out loud; to yell out; to emphasize
the British Empire
labia majora
(state of) utter panic; great panic
Dalian (China)
big star; superstar
the giant slalom
major volcanic eruption; large-scale eruption; violent eruption; great eruption
great gathering
① 股から膝の間を構成する骨。
① 消化器官を有する動物が、摂取した食物を消化した後に残った未消化の残滓で、消化器官から排出するもの。
private university
Age of Discovery; Age of Exploration
colorectal cancer; large bowel cancer
colorectal cancer; large bowel cancer
growing old; old person
double extra-large; 2XL; XXL
lecture hall; lecture theatre; auditorium
surprise victory; upset; coup
major surgery; major operation
① 非常に強い力。また、その持ち主。
daihinmin; daifugō; Japanese card game similar to President
ōshinbun; type of Meiji-era newspaper characterized by its use of political commentary written in literary language; major newspaper
big thanks; great gratitude
① 書物の巻数や冊数が多いこと。ページ数、紙数が多いこと。② 大部分。ほとんど全部。
Sister (i.e. a nun; sometimes used as a posthumous suffix)
great stature; large build
large circle; great circle
subserviency to the stronger
top-quality sake brewed from rice grains milled to 50% of weight or less
large encyclopedia
harangue; fervent speech
large temple
the Major Leagues; Major League Baseball; MLB
large monk; large, bald man; big baldy; large, bald-headed monster
large, medium and small (businesses, rooms, etc.)
large amount of capital; large-cap; big-cap
major change; major transformation
large dictionary; comprehensive dictionary; unabridged dictionary
High Priest (of Israel)
edifice; monumental architecture; huge building
Greater East Asian War (1941-1945); Pacific War
scum of the earth; monster; fiend
big splash; big response; major repercussions
large beer mug
the greater embraces the less; better too big than too small
① 実物と同じ大きさ。「実物大の模型」
battle royal
great shock
major air raid; blitz
national university
large-scale maneuvers; large-scale manoeuvres; war games
revolution; cataclysm; drastic change
great scholar; savant; polymath
① 農業大学、または農科大学の略。
mass recruitment
greater-than mark (>); right angle bracket
great and small; in detail; all
university festival; rag day
major recession; serious (economic) depression; Great Depression
head temple of a Buddhist sect
① 高くて大きいこと。
Lord Chancellor
small; tiny; (lit.) size of a palm
greater metropolitan area; megalopolis; conurbation
(China's) Cultural Revolution (1966-76)
actual size; full size
Military Staff College
Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere
commercial college
Winter Triangle (asterism)
technical college
former central university of Kyoto (established under the ritsuryo system for the training of government administrators)
daini (type of playing cards)
major-leaguer; member of a major-league team
Völkerwanderung; great migration in Europe, 4th to 6th century CE
Daijirin (Japanese dictionary published by Sanseido)
hard-to-get-into university; elite university; highly-selective university
resolute decision
big three dragons; winning hand consisting of pungs or kongs of each of the three types of dragon tiles
marble statue
The Eight Greater Hells
large feast; big meal
giant catfish (mythological being thought to cause earthquakes)
giant catfish (mythological being thought to cause earthquakes)
(time of) extreme cold; "major cold" solar term (approx. January 20, roughly the coldest time of the year)
gluteus maximus
heavy damage; great harm
university graduate; college graduate
great debate; great controversy
large and wide
to achieve greatness; to achieve success
business-card size
big goof; serious mistake
big goof; serious mistake
private university
Great Patriotic War (Russian name for the war along the eastern front during World War II)
the ten great disciples (of Buddha)
big family principle; extended family policy
Spring Triangle (asterism)
fairness; justice
throwing one's weight around without knowing one's limitations; (lit.) Yelang thinks too highly of itself
something of the same size; the said university
toilet (for defecating)
postcard size
(arch.) great impropriety (esp. towards the imperial family); crime against the imperial family (or a shrine dedicated to them, etc.)
Great Awakening (18th century American Christian revival movement)
main telephone number
① 臼歯のうち、奥に生えている歯。
Great Britain (island)
Socialist Masses Party
exerting oneself to the utmost, prepared to die if necessary
Yamantaka Vidya-raja; conqueror of Death
main (switchboard) number; main telephone (phone) number
grand champion considered to be truly great, usually with over 10 makuuchi tournament wins
Mahesvara (Shiva in the Buddhist pantheon)
major religion; great religion
great; immense
broad category
university of foreign studies; university specializing in foreign languages
great teachings (of the Buddha); teachings of the Mahayana; most important ritual (in esoteric Buddhism)
megacompetition; mega-competition
Mahāraurava; The Hell of Great Wailing; The Great Screaming Hell; the fifth of eight hot hells in Buddhism
grand unified theory
Mahasamghika (early Buddhist movement)
grand coalition; grand alliance
star anise (Illicium verum)
feces; excrement; large effect
psoas major muscle
major planet; giant planet; Jovian planet
very auspicious day
Indian Mutiny (1857-1858)
position at the imperial court in ancient China
swallowing a great amount of tea or medicine; tea prepared for the New Year with the first water of the year
Daewongun (honorary title for the father of the king in Joseon-era Korea; esp. in ref. to Heungseon Daewongun, father of Emperor Gojong)
supreme order (i.e. of the chrysanthemum); highest possible order of merit
Great Interregnum (gap between Hohenstaufen and Habsburg rule of the Holy Roman Empire, approx. 1254-1273 CE)
the seven great temples of Nara (Daian-ji, Gango-ji, Horyu-ji, Kofuku-ji, Saidai-ji, Todai-ji, Yakushi-ji)
① 過去よりさらに前の動作や状態を表す時制。英語では過去完了形で表す。例、「I thought he had been sick.(私は彼が(それ以前に)病気だったと思った。)」
① ダイサギ。
university system
Dai Kanwa Jiten (major Kanji Dictionary, edited by Morohashi Tetsuji)
grand mal (seizure)
① 数え年121歳の祝い。
systemic circulation; general circulation (of the atmosphere)
tea prepared for the New Year with the first water of the year
Great Qing Empire (China, 1644-1912); Qing dynasty
the great municipal mergers of the Heisei era; series of large-scale municipal mergers carried out between 1995 and 2010 under the temporary Special Mergers Law
being bold and courageous, but also careful and meticulous
① 当選者を1選挙区から2名以上選出する選挙制度。
university graduate
Large-scale Retail Stores Law
large deformation
last session (trading day, trading) of the year
master; grandmaster; senior instructor
Grand Cordon of the Order of the Rising Sun
great six-syllable mantra ("om mani padme hum")
kanji "big" radical at top
far-reaching amendment; significant revision
① 「大祥忌」の略。
greater trochanter; trochanter major
public university
large paragraph
first session (trading day) of the year
large character; alternative kanji used for numbers (esp. in financial contexts)
square brackets
square brackets
eight great wisdom kings (Acala, Kundali, Mezu, Munosho, Trilokavijaya, Ucchusma, Vajrayaksa, Yamantaka)
Great Vowel Shift
Eurasian curlew (Numenius arquata)
Grand Cordon of the Supreme Order of the Chrysanthemum
Grand Cordon of the Order of the Paulownia Flowers
Grand Cordon of the Order of the Precious Crown
① 大阪証券取引所の略。
global modelling transformation
global entity
mass storage
mass storage control system; MSCS
school of kowakamai dance founded by Yamamoto Sirozaemon
Manchukuo dialect; Greater East Asian dialect
os trapezium; trapezium
Large Magellanic Cloud (galaxy)
seven boarding schools established in Kyoto by noble families during the early Heian period
university of technology; science and technology college
large pyroclastic flow
lesser sand plover (Charadrius mongolus)
greater sand plover (Charadrius leschenaultii)
Habenaria dentata (species of bog orchid)
the seven continents
the seven continents
Mahavairocana Sutra; Mahavairocana Tantra
large storage space
Kannon of Great Mercy (alt. name for Avalokiteshvara); Greatly Compassionate Kannon; Daihi Kannon
large lot (manufacture); big lot
large shaku (approx. 35.6cm)
grown-up woman; adult woman
distinguished scholar; holder of a higher doctorate
bench used by the Emperor
Hirosakigakuindaimae Station
Examples (53 in total)
Large or small?
I hate dancing.
I hate Christmas.