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巨大

きょだい

huge, gigantic

Mnemonic

You fetch the big rule and it still will not go round it, and a person with both arms flung out covers one window. Kyo きょ, and the same die だい as 大体. That is the museum: きょだい.

Built from

huge
A carpenter's rule with a handle, drawn end on. The measure you reach for when the small one will not go round it.
big
A person stood with both arms flung wide.

Words sharing these kanji

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

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