大
부수: 大
획수: 3획
大 has the meanings adult, big, and great.
大 = 大
X = semantic
• 大 depicts a standing person and means ‘adult person’.
Evolution:
大 = adult person ➔ big ➔ great
Mnemonic
See the original forms which clearly depicts a person with spread arms and legs. Imagine a fisherman describing the fish that got away as being ‘this big’ 大.
Vocab
| 大槪 | 대개 | most; generally/usually |
| 大學 | 대학 | university |
| 擴大 | 확대 | expansion; enlargement |
| 大洋 | 대양 | ocean |
| 大腦 | 대뇌 | cerebrum |
| 大綱 | 대강 | outline; roughly |
| 大會 | 대회 | a convention; competition |
| 大衆 | 대중 | the masses |
| 大部分 | 대부분 | most of; largely |
| 大多數 | 대다수 | majority |
| 最大限 | 최대한 | maximum; fully |
| 大統領 | 대통령 | president |
| 大使館 | 대사관 | embassy |
| 大企業 | 대기업 | large enterprise; major |
| 南大門 | 남대문 | South Gate company |
| 大理石 | 대리석 | marble |
| 都大體 | 도대체 | not at all; WOE |
| 大박 | 대박 | great win; great |
| 大端히 | 대단히 | very much; greatly |
| 世宗大王 | 세종대왕 | Sejong the Great |
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Bibliography
— Daum 사전, [s.v. 大].
— Grant, B.K. (1982). A Guide To Korean Characters: Reading and Writing Hangul and Hanja, [s.v. 33]. Seoul: Hollym.
— Outlier Dictionary of Chinese Characters, [s.v. 大].
— Seely, C., Henshall, K.G., & Fan, J. (2016). The Complete Guide to Japanese Kanji: Remembering and Understanding the 2,136 Standard Japanese Characters, [s.v. 56]. Singapore: Tuttle Publishing.