| 大 | dà | big; huge; large; major; great; wide; deep; oldest; eldest |
| 大 | dài | doctor |
| 大家 | dà jiā | everyone; influential family; great expert |
| 大量 | dà liàng | great amount; large quantity; bulk; numerous; generous; magnanimous |
| 大小 | dà xiǎo | dimension; magnitude; size; measurement; large and small; adults and children; consideration of seniority |
| 大会 | dà huì | general assembly; general meeting; convention; CL:个,届 |
| 大大 | dà dà | greatly; enormously; uncle |
| 大部 | dà bù | most of; the majority of sth |
| 大队 | dà duì | group; a large body of; production brigade; military group |
| 大多数 | dà duō shù | (great) majority |
| 大学 | dà xué | university; college; CL:所; the Great Learning, one of the Four Books 四书 in Confucianism |
| 大批 | dà pī | large quantities of |
| 大约 | dà yuē | approximately; about |
| 大于 | dà yú | greater than; bigger than |
| 大力 | dà lì | energetically; vigorously |
| 大豆 | dà dòu | soybean |
| 大臣 | dà chén | chancellor (of a monarchy); cabinet minister |
| 大型 | dà xíng | large; large-scale |
| 大人 | dà ren | adult; grownup; title of respect toward superiors |
| 大庆 | Dà qìng | Daqing prefecture level city in Heilongjiang province 黑龙江 in northeast China |
| 大概 | dà gài | roughly; probably; rough; approximate; about |
| 大规模 | dà guī mó | large scale; extensive; wide scale; broad scale |
| 大致 | dà zhì | more or less; roughly; approximately |
| 大地 | dà dì | earth; mother earth |
| 大陆 | dà lù | continent; mainland (esp. of China); mainland China; refers to People's Republic of China 中华人民共和国; CL:个 |
| 大使 | dà shǐ | ambassador; envoy; CL:名,位 |
| 大体 | dà tǐ | in general; more or less; in rough terms; basically; on the whole |
| 大气 | dà qì | atmosphere; heavy breathing; magnanimity |
| 大气压 | dà qì yā | atmospheric pressure |
| 大事 | dà shì | major event; major political event (war or change of regime); major social event (wedding or funeral); (do sth) in a big way; CL:件,桩 |
| 大寨 | dà zhài | Dazhai |
| 大众 | dà zhòng | the masses; the great bulk of the population; popular (of music, science etc); Volkswagen (automobile manufacturer) |
| 大门 | dà mén | entrance; door; gate |
| 大脑 | dà nǎo | brain; cerebrum |
| 大胆 | dà dǎn | brazen; audacious; outrageous; bold; daring; fearless |
| 大多 | dà duō | for the most part; many; most; the greater part; mostly |
| 大妈 | dà mā | father's elder brother's wife; aunt (affectionate term for an elderly woman) |
| 大娘 | dà niáng | (informal) father's older brother's wife; aunt (polite address) |
| 大使馆 | dà shǐ guǎn | embassy; CL:座,个 |
| 大一 | dà yī | first-year university student |
| 大有 | dà yǒu | plentiful (e.g. harvest) |
| 大夫 | dài fu | doctor; minister of state (in pre-Han states); CL:个,位 |
| 大幅度 | dà fú dù | by a wide margin; substantial |
| 大总统 | dà zǒng tǒng | president (of a country); same as 总统 |
| 大西洋 | Dà xī yáng | Atlantic Ocean |
| 大跃进 | dà yuè jìn | the Great Leap Forward (1958-1960), in retrospect widely viewed as an unprecedented economic and social disaster, with estimated 20 million people dying of starvation |
| 大爷 | dà yé | arrogant idler; self-centred show-off |
| 大爷 | dà ye | (informal) father's older brother; uncle; term of respect for older man |
| 大哥 | dà gē | eldest brother |
| 大革命 | dà gé mìng | great revolution |
