大 - Wiktionary, the free dictionary Original form of 夫 (OC *pa, *ba, “man”), phonetically borrowed for 大 (OC *daːds, *daːds, “big”) Compare 人, which represents the profile of a person Often explained as an ideogram of a person with outstretched arms; however, the ancient scripts do not show stretching Compare with 尢, which is a man with bent legs
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