"大字" meaning in Japanese

See 大字 in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Noun

IPA: [da̠iʑi] Forms: 大字 [canonical] (ruby: (だい), ()), daiji [romanization]
Etymology templates: {{ja-see|おおあざ}} Head templates: {{ja-noun|だいじ}} 大(だい)字(じ) • (daiji)
  1. a large character
    Sense id: en-大字-ja-noun-4F7NN3oF Categories (other): Japanese terms with 2 kanji, Writing Disambiguation of Japanese terms with 2 kanji: 42 58 Disambiguation of Writing: 67 33
  2. financial numeral characters (e.g. 参 instead of 三 for three)
    Sense id: en-大字-ja-noun-3z73hmal Categories (other): Japanese entries with incorrect language header, Japanese links with redundant alt parameters, Japanese links with redundant wikilinks, Japanese terms with 2 kanji, Japanese terms with multiple readings, Japanese terms with non-redundant non-automated sortkeys, Mathematics Disambiguation of Japanese entries with incorrect language header: 6 94 Disambiguation of Japanese links with redundant alt parameters: 14 86 Disambiguation of Japanese links with redundant wikilinks: 12 88 Disambiguation of Japanese terms with 2 kanji: 42 58 Disambiguation of Japanese terms with multiple readings: 12 88 Disambiguation of Japanese terms with non-redundant non-automated sortkeys: 11 89 Disambiguation of Mathematics: 43 57
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Etymology number: 2
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Download raw JSONL data for 大字 meaning in Japanese (1.3kB)

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This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable Japanese dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2025-06-01 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2025-05-20 using wiktextract (3dadd05 and f1c2b61). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

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