| 大法官 | dà fǎ guān | grand justice; high court justice; supreme court justice |
| 大象 | dà xiàng | elephant; CL:只 |
| 大势所趋 | dà shì suǒ qū | general trend; irresistible trend |
| 大校 | dà xiào | senior ranking officer in Chinese army; senior colonel |
| 大棒 | dà bàng | big-stick |
| 大葱 | dà cōng | leek; Chinese onion |
| 大一统 | dà yī tǒng | unification (of the nation); large scale unification |
| 大刀阔斧 | dà dāo kuò fǔ | bold and decisive |
| 大月 | dà yuè | solar month of 31 days; a lunar month of 30 days |
| 大肚子 | dà dù zi | pregnant |
| 大饼 | dà bǐng | large flat bread |
| 大雁 | dà yàn | wild goose; CL:只 |
| 大使级 | dà shǐ jí | ambassadorial |
| 大功告成 | dà gōng gào chéng | successfully accomplished (project or goal); to be highly successful |
| 大客车 | dà kè chē | coach |
| 大草原 | dà cǎo yuán | prairie; savanna |
| 大限 | dà xiàn | the limit; maximum; one's allocated lifespan |
| 大显身手 | dà xiǎn shēn shǒu | (idiom) fully displaying one's capabilities |
| 大仲马 | dà zhòng mǎ | Alexandre Dumas, père |
| 大个儿 | dà gèr | tall person |
| 大印 | dà yìn | stamp; official seal |
| 大悟 | Dà wù | Dawu county in Xiaogan 孝感, Hubei |
| 大东 | Dà dōng | Dadong district of Shenyang city 沈阳市, Liaoning |
| 大堂 | dà táng | lobby |
| 大教堂 | dà jiào táng | cathedral |
| 大秦 | Dà Qín | Han Dynasty term for the Roman Empire 罗马帝国 |
| 大兴土木 | dà xīng tǔ mù | to carry out large scale construction |
| 大卫 | Dà wèi | David (name); Jacques-Louis David (1748-1825), French neoclassical painter |
| 大包大揽 | dà bāo dà lǎn | to take complete charge (idiom) |
| 大声 | dà shēng | loud voice; in a loud voice; loudly |
| 大一些 | dà yī xiē | a bit bigger |
| 大一统志 | dà yī tǒng zhì | Dayuan Dayi Tongzhi, Yuan dynasty geographical encyclopedia, compiled 1285-1294 under Jamal al-Din 扎马剌丁 and Yu Yinglong 虞应龙, 755 scrolls |
| 大丈夫能屈能伸 | dà zhàng fu néng qū néng shēn | A leader can submit or can stand tall as required.; ready to give and take; flexible |
| 大三 | dà sān | third-year university student |
| 大三和弦 | dà sān hé xián | major triad do-mi-so |
| 大三度 | dà sān dù | major third (musical interval) |
| 大不了 | dà bù liǎo | at worst; if worst comes to worst; serious; alarming |
| 大不列蹀 | dà bu lie die | to be too casual or informal |
| 大不相同 | dà bù xiāng tóng | not at all the same; substantially different |
| 大不里士 | Dà bù lǐ shì | Tabriz city in northwest Iran, capital of Iranian East Azerbaijan |
| 大不韪 | dà bù wěi | great error; heinous crime |
| 大中学生 | dà zhōng xué sheng | university and high school students |
| 大中华区 | dà Zhōng huá qū | greater China; refers to China, Taiwan, Hong Kong and Macau (esp. in finance and economics); refers to all areas of Chinese presence (esp. in the cultural field), including parts of Southeast Asia, Europe and the Americas |
| 大久保 | Dà jiǔ bǎo | Japanese surname and place name Oukubo |
| 大久保利通 | Dà jiǔ bǎo Lì tōng | Oukubo Toshimichi (1830-1878), Japanese politician |
| 大乘 | dà chéng | Mahayana, the Great Vehicle; Buddhism based on the Mayahana sutras, as spread to Central Asia, China and beyond |
大事化小，
小事化了 | dà shì huà xiǎo ,
xiǎo shì huà le | to turn big problems into small ones, and small problems into no problems at all |
| 大二 | dà èr | second-year university student |
| 大五码 | dà wǔ mǎ | Big5 Chinese character coding (developed by Taiwanese companies from 1984) |
| 大五趾跳鼠 | dà wǔ zhǐ tiào shǔ | great jerboa (Allactaga major) |
