adjective #5,359

Meanings

  1. 1 huge; tremendous; gigantic

Examples

Zhè shì yīgè jùdà de tiǎozhàn.
This is a huge challenge.
Tā de gōngsī zhuàn le jù'é lìrùn.
His company made enormous profits.

Tips

usage
is in 巨大 (jùdà, enormous), 巨人 (jùrén, giant), 巨额 (jù'é, huge amount). In internet slang, is used like 'super': 好吃 (super delicious).

Components

pictograph
huge; carpenter's square
Self-component — is essentially atomic. The original pictograph showed a person holding a large carpenter's L-shaped square; the figure later dropped away, leaving today's 4-stroke frame. Because 'great square' was a literal big tool, generalised to 巨大, 巨人. Indexed under Kangxi #22 (fāng) via the open-box silhouette.

Filed under radical (fāng, #22) by convention. is not a separate component in , so no strokes are highlighted.

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