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大体

だいたい

mostly

Mnemonic

The big body of it done and only the edges still ragged. A die だい and a tie たい, and the report is very nearly there: だいたい.

Built from

big
A person stood with both arms flung wide.
body
亻 person + 本 root, origin

Words sharing these kanji

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

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