Mnemonic comic for 大

one / single / a (article) / as soon as / entire; whole; all; throughout / "one" radical in Chinese characters (Kangxi radical 1) / also pr. [yao1] for greater clarity when spelling out numbers digit by digit

person; people / CL:個|个[ge4],位[wei4]

not very / not too / not often

at dawn / at first light / first thing in the morning

to be a dime a dozen; easy to come by

distant relatives

G7, the group of 7 industrialized countries: US, Japan, Britain, Germany, France, Italy and Canada (now G8, including Russia)

(coll.) Arisaka Type 38 rifle (Japanese army rifle used 1905-1945)

cosmos (Buddhism)

the Three Rules of Discipline and Eight Points for Attention, a military doctrine issued in 1928 by Mao Zedong for the Red Army, which included a number of injunctions demanding high standards of behavior and respect for civilians during wartime

the three gods in charge of heaven, earth and water (Daoism)

(coll.) to feel as though one's head could explode (Tw)

Three Gorges Dam on the Yangtze River

Shanghai Jiao Tong University

Shanghai International Studies University (SISU)

Shanghai Grand Theater

Shanghai University

Shanghai Second Medical University

Shanghai University of Finance and Economics (SUFE)

Shanghai Medical University

case insensitive / not distinguishing capitals from lowercase letters

erhua variant of 一大早[yi1 da4 zao3]