Hanja 大 in 77 Korean words

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is read and builds 77 of the Korean words on this site — 대통령 (president), 대학 (college, university) and 대부분 (the majority, the better part) among them. Every one is below, with the character marked inside its spelling; each links to the word's full entry.

As the first character — 59 words

대통령 統領 president TOPIK 3 대학 college, university TOPIK 1 대부분 部分 the majority, the better part TOPIK 2 대회 competition, contest TOPIK 2 대중 the masses TOPIK 3 대형 large TOPIK 3 대체로 體- on the whole TOPIK 3 대개 generally TOPIK 4 대규모 規模 large scale TOPIK 4 대학생 學生 college/university student TOPIK 1 대선 presidential election TOPIK 3 대기 atmosphere TOPIK 4 대문 gate, front entrance TOPIK 3 대기업 企業 large company, conglomerate TOPIK 4 대중문화 衆文化 pop culture TOPIK 4 대폭 widely TOPIK 6 대량 large quantity TOPIK 4 대륙 continent TOPIK 5 대학원 學院 graduate school TOPIK 2 대감 (way of addressing sb high up and respected) TOPIK 4 대다수 多數 the great majority, the bulk TOPIK 4 대왕 great king TOPIK 5 대도시 都市 large city, metropolis TOPIK 3 대개 the majority TOPIK 4 대지 earth TOPIK 6 대학교 學校 university (institution of higher education) TOPIK 1 대권 great circle, prerogative, royal prerogative, supremacy TOPIK 6 대체 on earth (emphatic) TOPIK 4 대국 major power TOPIK 6 대략 approximately TOPIK 4 대전 Daejeon (a city in South Korea) TOPIK 2 대거 lifted by many people TOPIK 6 대사 使 ambassador TOPIK 4 대대적 on a large scale TOPIK 6 대사관 使館 an embassy TOPIK 1 대강 approximately TOPIK 4 대포 cannon Common 대학교수 學敎授 university professor TOPIK 4 대입 substitution TOPIK 5 대령 colonel Common 대중화 衆化 mass popularization TOPIK 5 대중교통 衆交通 public transport TOPIK 3 대자보 字報 big-character poster Common 대체적 體的 generally, broadly TOPIK 4 대세 the general tendency Common 대중적 衆的 of the masses TOPIK 5 대자연 自然 nature Common 대중음악 衆音樂 popular music Common 대폭발 爆發 big Bang Common 대학가 學街 the popular street in front of a university TOPIK 6 대장 general TOPIK 5 대통령직 統領職 the office of the president Common 대가족 家族 a clan, a big family TOPIK 5 대양 ocean TOPIK 6 대장부 丈夫 a manly man Common 대폭적 幅的 something drastic or substantial TOPIK 6 대구 Daegu TOPIK 2 대학로 學路 TOPIK 6 대한민국 韓民國 the Republic of Korea TOPIK 3

As the last character — 3 words

가운데In the middle — 15 words

같은 소리, 다른 글자7 other characters are also read 대

Hangul spells all of them 대. This is where Korean's homophones come from, and telling them apart is what the character is for.

함께 쓰이는 글자Characters it combines with

The other halves of the words above, each with the commonest word the two build together. Every one is a page of its own.

All 1,087 characters › — or read why hanja is worth an hour if this is the first one you have opened.

Hanja spellings, word meanings and TOPIK grades from the 국립국어원 한국어기초사전, used under CC BY-SA 2.0 KR.

The reading is derived from the alignment between these words' Hangul and their hanja spellings, not taken from a character dictionary — which is also why no 훈 is shown.