EntryCommonJLPT N3WaniKani 15
  1. Adverb (fukushi)

    very; greatly; terribly; awfully

    1日中歩き回って大変疲れた。
    I am dead tired from walking around all day.
  2. Na-adjective (keiyodoshi), Noun

    immense; enormous; great

  3. serious; grave; dreadful; terrible

  4. difficult; hard; challenging

  5. Noun

    major incident; disaster

    Archaic

Also written 大へん【たいへん】

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Characters in this word

2
Strokes: KanjiVG, CC BY-SA 3.0

large, big

Kun
おお-おお.きい-おお.いに
On
ダイタイ
Strokes
3
Taught
Grade 1
JLPT
N5
Frequency
7 of 2500
Radical
big
WaniKani
Level 1

Built from

Used in names as

うふおうたかしともはじめひろひろしまさまさるもと

Dictionary and index codes (34)
CodeReference
4-3-4SKIP code
0a3.18The Kanji Dictionary
4003.0Four corner code
1463deroo
5927Unicode hex code
1-34-71JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
1171Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
1133New Nelson (John Haig)
3416New Japanese-English Character Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
4224Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
2133Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
2882Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern)
107Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
112Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
7A New Dictionary of Kanji Usage
48Japanese Names (P.G. O’Neill)
32Essential Kanji (P.G. O’Neill)
5831Morohashi
53A Guide To Remembering Japanese Characters (Kenneth G. Henshall)
26Kanji and Kana (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
26Kanji and Kana, 2nd Edition (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
22sakade
40Japanese Kanji Flashcards (Max Hodges and Tomoko Okazaki)
25henshall3
14Tuttle Kanji Cards (Alexander Kask)
5crowley
87Kanji in Context (Nishiguchi and Kono)
2.2busy_people
408Kodansha Compact Kanji Guide
108Les Kanjis dans la tête (Yves Maniette)
da4, dai4Pinyin reading
dae, da, taeKorean reading
n5JLPT level (KANJIDIC2)
1WaniKani level
Strokes: KanjiVG, CC BY-SA 3.0

unusual, change, strange

Kun
か.わるか.わりか.える
On
ヘン
Strokes
9
Taught
Grade 4
JLPT
N3
Frequency
238 of 2500
Radical
go
WaniKani
Level 15

Built from

Dictionary and index codes (33)
CodeReference
2-2-7, 2-6-3SKIP code
2j7.3The Kanji Dictionary
0024.7, 0040.7Four corner code
467deroo
5909Unicode hex code
1-42-49JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
306Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
1119New Nelson (John Haig)
2069New Japanese-English Character Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
2569Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
1311Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
1782Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern)
1745Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
1882Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
324A New Dictionary of Kanji Usage
970Japanese Names (P.G. O’Neill)
191Essential Kanji (P.G. O’Neill)
5703Morohashi
581A Guide To Remembering Japanese Characters (Kenneth G. Henshall)
257Kanji and Kana (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
257Kanji and Kana, 2nd Edition (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
509sakade
443Japanese Kanji Flashcards (Max Hodges and Tomoko Okazaki)
609henshall3
532Tuttle Kanji Cards (Alexander Kask)
254crowley
222Kanji in Context (Nishiguchi and Kono)
401Kodansha Compact Kanji Guide
1761Les Kanjis dans la tête (Yves Maniette)
bian4Pinyin reading
byeonKorean reading
n3JLPT level (KANJIDIC2)
15WaniKani level