Radical 37 or radical big ( 大部 ), which means big, great, or very is one of the 31 Kangxi radicals (214 radicals total) composed of three strokes . In the Kangxi Dictionary , there are 132 characters (out of 49,030) to be found under this radical . 大 is also the 33rd indexing component in the Table of Indexing Chinese Character Components predominantly adopted by Simplified Chinese dictionaries published in mainland China . Compare 天 ; unrelated to 犬 . Shang dynasty Oracle bone script Shang dynasty Bronze script Western Zhou Bronze script Spring and Autumn period bronze script Warring States period bronze script Chu slip and silk script Qin slip script Large seal script character Small seal script character Qing dynasty Clerical script Derived characters This functions as a Hanzi and a 1st grade Kyōiku kanji .

Further reading Fazzioli, Edoardo (1987). Chinese calligraphy : from pictograph to ideogram : the history of 214 essential Chinese/Japanese characters . calligraphy by Rebecca Hon Ko. New York: Abbeville Press . ISBN 0-89659-774-1 . Lunde, Ken (Jan 5, 2009). "Appendix J: Japanese Character Sets" (PDF) . CJKV Information Processing: Chinese, Japanese, Korean & Vietnamese Computing (Second ed.). Sebastopol, Calif. : O'Reilly Media . ISBN 978-0-596-51447-1 . Unihan Database - U+5927 159 邑 （阝 right ） 175 阜 （阝 left ） Kangxi radicals Simplified Chinese radicals Articles with short description Short description is different from Wikidata Articles containing Chinese-language text Articles containing Japanese-language text Commons category link is on Wikidata