Radical 37

Radical 37 or radical big (大部) meaning "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.

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  Shang dynastyOracle bone script
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  Shang dynasty Bronze script
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  Western Zhou Bronze script
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  Spring and Autumn period bronze script
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  Warring States period bronze script
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  Chuslip and silk script
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  Qin slip script
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  Large seal script character
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  Small seal script character
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  Qing dynasty Clerical script

The radical is also used as an independent Chinese character. It is one of the Kyōiku kanji or Kanji taught in elementary school in Japan.^[1] It is a first grade kanji.^[1]

• 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