| 大员 | dà yuán | high official |
| 大略 | dà lüè | a broad outline; the general idea; roughly |
| 大钱 | dà qián | high denomination of banknotes or coins; lots of money; a big sum (e.g. a bribe) |
| 大陆架 | dà lù jià | continental shelf |
| 大别山 | Dà bié shān | Dabie mountain range on the borders of Henan, Anhui and Hubei provinces |
| 大坂 | Dà bǎn | old name for Ōsaka 大阪 (city in Japan), changed in the beginning of the Meiji 明治 Era because 坂 could, if the radicals were read separately, be interpreted as "(will) return to soil" |
| 大张旗鼓 | dà zhāng qí gǔ | fanfare |
| 大兴安岭 | Dà xīng ān lǐng | Daxing'anling mountain range in northwest Heilongjiang province 黑龙江 in northeast China; Daxing'anling prefecture |
| 大安 | Dà ān | Da'an or Ta'an district of Taipei City 台北市, Taiwan; Ta'an township in Taichung county 台中县, Taiwan; Da'an county level city in Baicheng 白城, Jilin |
| 大昭寺 | Dà zhāo sì | Jokhang, main Buddhist temple in Lhasa, a sacred place of Tibetan Buddhism |
| 大用 | dà yòng | to put sb in powerful position; to empower |
| 大蒜 | dà suàn | garlic |
| 大肠 | dà cháng | the large intestine |
| 大志 | dà zhì | high aims |
| 大要 | dà yào | abstract; gist; main points |
| 大错 | dà cuò | blunder |
| 大喊大叫 | dà hǎn dà jiào | shouting and screaming (idiom); to scream loudly; to rant; to kick up a racket; to conduct vigorous propaganda |
| 大赦 | dà shè | amnesty; general pardon |
| 大数 | dà shù | a large number; Tarsus, Mediterranean city in Turkey, the birthplace of St Paul |
| 大有可为 | dà yǒu kě wéi | with great prospects for the future (idiom); well worth doing |
| 大林 | Dà lín | Dalin or Talin town in Chiayi county 嘉义县, west Taiwan |
| 大殿 | dà diàn | main hall of a Buddhist temple |
| 大解 | dà jiě | to defecate; to empty one's bowels |
| 大户 | dà hù | great family; rich family; large landlord; conspicuous spender or consumer |
| 大料 | dà liào | Chinese anise; star anise |
| 大肠杆菌 | dà cháng gǎn jūn | Escherichia coli (E. coli) |
| 大惊小怪 | dà jīng xiǎo guài | much fuss about nothing |
| 大主教 | dà zhǔ jiào | archbishop; primate (of a church); metropolitan |
| 大港 | Dà gǎng | Dagang former district of Tianjin, now part of Binhai subprovincial district 滨海新区 |
| 大同小异 | dà tóng xiǎo yì | virtually the same; differing only on small points |
| 大渡河 | Dà dù hé | Dadu river in Sichuan |
| 大脚 | dà jiǎo | bigfoot (mythological animal popular in the US) |
| 大尉 | dà wèi | captain (army rank); senior captain |
| 大洋洲 | Dà yáng Zhōu | Oceania |
| 大粪 | dà fèn | human excrement; night soil (human manure traditionally used as agricultural fertilizer) |
| 大难 | dà nàn | great catastrophe |
| 大新 | Dà xīn | Daxin county in Chongzuo 崇左, Guangxi |
| 大通 | Dà tōng | Datong district of Huainan city 淮南市, Anhui; Datong Hui and Tu autonomous county in Xining 西宁, Qinghai |
| 大黄鱼 | dà huáng yú | Croceine croaker (Pseudosciaena crocea), a fish popular in Cantonese cooking |
| 大竹 | Dà zhú | Dazhu county in Dazhou 达州, Sichuan |
| 大不列颠 | Dà Bù liè diān | Great Britain |
| 大前提 | dà qián tí | major premise |
| 大号 | dà hào | tuba |
| 大公报 | Dà Gōng Bào | Dagong Bao, popular newspaper name; Ta Kung Pao, founded 1902 in Beijing, now published in Hong Kong |
| 大凡 | dà fán | generally; in general |
| 大动脉 | dà dòng mài | main artery (blood vessel); fig. main highway; arterial road |
| 大厂 | Dà chǎng | Dachang Hui autonomous county in Langfang 廊坊, Hebei |
| 大本营 | dà běn yíng | headquarters; base camp |
| 大烟 | dà yān | opium |
| 大冶 | Dà yě | Daye county level city in Huangshi 黄石, Hubei |
