大
dàdàitài HSK1

big

大 dà frequency
big adjective
big; large; great; vast; high in scale or intensity; (of a person) old; adult

一个是大的，另一个是小的。

yī​ge shì dà de, lìng yī​ge shì xiǎo de.

One is big, the other is small.

approximate adverb
roughly; approximately; in general
greatly adverb
greatly; fully; to a high degree; (when used after 不 bù) not very; not often
eldest adjective
the oldest; first in order of seniority among siblings or relatives

我是三个孩子中第二大的。

wǒ shì sān​ge hái​zi zhōng dì'èr dà de.

I'm the second oldest of three children.

[temporal emphasis] adjectiveadverb
used before certain time or weather terms to emphasize degree or distance from the present
[honorific]
honorific used to refer to things belonging to the person being addressed
father
(dialect) father; uncle (father's brother)
surname
a Chinese surname
radical
the 37th Kangxi radical
大 dài
(bound form) person of importance noun
(bound form) person of importance; used in certain titles and names such as 大夫 dài​fu
大 tài
utmost
(archaic) variant of 太 tài or 泰 tài, meaning "utmost" or "highest"

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Frequency
Character
Written text
17th most common 5447.2 per million
Movie subtitles
57th most common 2885.5 per million appears in 100% of films
Word
Movie subtitles
1343.2 per million appears in 98% of films
Written text
2037.5 per million

Details
HSK 2.0
Level 1
HSK 3.0
Level 1
Strokes
3
Unicode
U+5927

Sources
Frequency data
MTSU Chinese text computingSUBTLEX-CHBCC Corpus (BLCU)