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大きい

おおきい

big, large

Mnemonic

The same 大, the same big. 大きな and 大きい mean exactly the same thing. This one just ends in い, the way most adjectives do: おおきい.

Worth knowing

大きな sits directly in front of a noun; 大きい behaves like a normal い-adjective.

Built from

big
A person stood with both arms flung wide.

Words sharing these kanji

love big, large alright, OK terrible, serious, grave important, precious important, valuable huge, gigantic adult large quantity, great volume mostly biggest, largest very, greatly

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