大dà

Simplified Chinese (簡體). 大 (dà, "big") remains unchanged from its traditional form — a pictograph of a person standing with arms outstretched, a gesture of size and importance that has spoken across three millennia. As a radical, it appears in characters like 天 (heaven, "great sky"), 夫 (husband, "great person"), and 奔 (run, "great footsteps"), always carrying its original sense of magnitude.