| | big; large; great / older (than another person) / eldest (as in 大姐) / greatly; freely; fully / (dialect) father / (dialect) uncle (father's brother) | HSK 1 |
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| | big and strong; formidable; powerful | HSK 3 |
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| | big sister / elder sister / older sister (also polite term of address for a girl or woman slightly older than the speaker) | HSK 4 |
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| | greater than; bigger than; more than | HSK 5 |
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| | eldest brother / big brother (polite address for a man of about the same age as oneself) / gang leader; boss | HSK 4 |
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| | major event / major political event (war or change of regime) / major social event (wedding or funeral) / (do sth) in a big way / CL: 件, 樁｜桩 | HSK 5 |
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| | to take the big picture into consideration (idiom) / to work for the benefits of all | HSK 7-9 |
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| | tray; plate; dish / (finance) (bound form) market prices / (computing) (bound form) disk / to coil (a rope, pigtail etc) / to check; to examine; to investigate / to transfer; to sell (property) / to shift; to move (sth big and heavy) / classifier for things resembling a plate or dish / classifier for coils / classifier for games or matches (chess, table tennis etc) | HSK 4 |
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| | big data (computing) | HSK 7-9 |
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| | wheel; disk; ring / steamship / to take turns; to rotate / classifier for big round objects: disk, or recurring events: round, turn | HSK 4 |
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| | abbr. for the Big Dipper constellation 北斗星 | |
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| | in general; more or less; in rough terms; basically; on the whole / overall situation; the big picture / cadaver for dissection in training medical students | HSK 7-9 |
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| | several times (bigger) / double, treble, quadruple etc | |
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| | to talk big; to brag; to shoot off one's mouth / (dialect) to chat idly | HSK 7-9 |
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| | (of facts or truth) to become fully revealed; to come to light / (old) wine cup / (coll.) whiting (used in whitewash) / (coll.) (neologism, attested by 2020) healthcare worker in a full-body protective suit (from the white robot Baymax in Disney's "Big Hero 6", called " 大白" in Chinese) | |
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| | overall situation / the big picture | HSK 7-9 |
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| | (sports) to sprint; to spurt; to dash / to put in a big effort to achieve a goal as the deadline approaches | HSK 7-9 |
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| | extended family / big family / harmonious group | HSK 7-9 |
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| | big mouthful (of food, drink, smoke etc) / open mouth / gulping / gobbling / gaping | |
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| | clear and bright / with a big smile | |
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| | (onom.) the thump of a big drum | |
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| | Big Mac (McDonald's hamburger) (Tw) | |
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| | Wall Street, New York / by extension, American big business | |
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| | Great Bear / Big Dipper / Beidou or Peitou Town in Changhua County 彰化縣｜彰化县, Taiwan | |
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| | exceptionally big | HSK 6 |
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| | big stick (policy etc) | |
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| | tycoon / magnate / big player (including company, country, school etc) / big shot | HSK 7-9 |
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| | lit. wind and rain sweeping through the town (idiom) / fig. a big scandal / an uproar / the talk of the town | |
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| | gigantic dragon (lit. and fig.) / titanosaur (abbr. for 泰坦巨龍｜泰坦巨龙) / (slang) big dick / schlong | |
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| | to shout / to bellow / to make a big deal of sth / to make a fuss about sth | HSK 7-9 |
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| | large / bulky / big-ticket item | |
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| | the four elements: earth, water, fire, and wind (Buddhism) / the four freedoms: speaking out freely, airing views fully, holding great debates, and writing big-character posters, 大鳴大放｜大鸣大放, 大辯論｜大辩论, 大字報｜大字报 (PRC) | |
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| | influential person / major player / big shot | |
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| | (idiom) nothing more than this; that's all; no big deal; not very impressive | |
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| | capital city of a country / big / algebraic term for a large number (old) / artificial mound (old) | |
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| | Big Ben | |
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| | big shot (leading some field or group); godfather (in an organization) | |
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| | big shot / top gun / superstar / VIP | |
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| | lit. one spot (on the leopard) / fig. one small item in a big scheme | |
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| | big-hearted and serene (idiom); contended and easygoing | |
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| | to preserve and nurture one's spirit (idiom); honing one's strength for the big push | |
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| | to go to town / to enter a big city (to live or work) | |
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| | adult squid, typically more than 15 cm long with a slender body and fins in the shape of a big rhombus (Tw) | |
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| | to hit the big time | |
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| | big / large / great | |
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| | big gun / cannon / artillery / one who talks big / CL: 門｜门, 尊 | |
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| | who's this big shot? | |
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| | to spend big (on sth) / to pour a lot of money into sth | |
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| | (astronomy) Big Dipper | |
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| | to boast / to talk big | |
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| | (idiom) to talk big; to sound off; to be full of hot air | HSK 7-9 |
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| | lit. to go to war (idiom) / fig. to make a big fuss over sth | |
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| | gargantuan / as big as the sky / enormous | |
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| | (coll.) big shot; big name; bigwig; heavyweight | |
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| | to have a big head / (fig.) to get a headache / one's head is swimming | |
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| | (of a person) to make a big fuss about (sth); to make a big deal of / (of an adverse situation) to get ugly; to blow up; to escalate | |
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| | lit. it takes a long time to make a big pot (idiom); fig. a great talent matures slowly / in the fullness of time a major figure will develop into a pillar of the state / Rome wasn't built in a day | |
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| | lit. under a big tree the shade is plentiful (idiom) / fig. to benefit by proximity to an influential person | |
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| | Big Bang (cosmology) | |
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| | A small hole not plugged will make you suffer a big hole (idiom); a stitch in time saves nine | |
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| | 18-wheeler / big rig / semi-trailer | |
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| | (big) store | |
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| | how old? / how big? / how much? / so big / that much | |
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| | Big Mac Index, a measure of the purchasing power parity (PPP) between currencies | |
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| | to let go of the big prize while grabbing at trifles (idiom) | |
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| | thumb / big toe | |
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| | dignitary / distinguished person / royalty / nobleman / big shot | |
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| | big head / mask in the shape of a big head / the larger end of sth / the main part / the lion's share / dupe / sucker / (old) silver coin with a bust of Yuan Shikai 袁世凱｜袁世凯 on the obverse side | |
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| | Alioth; Epsilon Ursae Majoris in the Big Dipper | |
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| | to turn big problems into small ones, and small problems into no problems at all (idiom) | |
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| | Big Mac Index, a measure of the purchasing power parity (PPP) between currencies | |
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| | (coll.) to look every bit the big star | |
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| | to have eyes bigger than one's belly (idiom) | |
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| | to talk glibly / to talk big / to be all talk | |
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| | to shout and quarrel / to make a big fuss | |
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| | lit. a thousand mile journey begins with the first step / fig. big accomplishments come from an accumulation of little achievements made one by one | |
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| | to make a significant advance in one's career (idiom) / to get one's big break | |
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| | big talker | |
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| | to fail to see the larger issue (idiom) / to fail to grasp the big picture | |
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| | lit. to see a leopard through a narrow tube (idiom); fig. to miss the big picture | |
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| | big discount | |
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| | (old) the Big Dipper / (old) collective name for the three stars that form the handle of the Big Dipper | |
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| | dapanji or "big plate chicken", a kind of spicy chicken stew originating from Xinjiang | |
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| | big-hearted and serene (idiom); contented and easygoing | |
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| | blind people touch an elephant (idiom, from Nirvana sutra 大般涅槃經｜大般涅盘经); fig. unable to see the big picture / to mistake the part for the whole / unable to see the wood for the trees | |
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| | not to discard anything, whether small or big (idiom) / all-embracing | |
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| | looking at the big picture / all in all / all things considered | |
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| | to court death; to take a big risk | |
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| | so big / such a big | |
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| | big-bellied (idiom) / paunchy | |
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| | no matter how big or small / not distinguishing junior and senior | |
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| | (idiom) very big; huge | |
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| | many hairs make a fur coat (idiom); many small contributions add up to sth big / many a mickle makes a muckle | |
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| | to launch a satellite / (fig.) (neologism during the Great Leap Forward, c. 1958) to achieve prominent success / (later used sarcastically) to make exaggerated claims / to talk big | |
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| | (artificial) stream; canal; drain; ditch (CL: 條｜条) / (literary) big; great / (dialect) he; she; him; her / (old) rim of a carriage wheel; felloe | |
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| | big brother | |
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| | cowhide / leather / fig. flexible and tough / boasting / big talk | |
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| | a smaller variety of watermelon, with big, edible seeds | |
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| | trivial matter / Big deal! | |
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| | to go in for something in a big way; to undertake on a large scale | |
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