巨 jù
noun
: chief; large; great; gigantic; huge; tremendous
巨かい | きょかい kyokai
noun
: ringleader; chief
巨なる | おおいなる ooinaru
pre-noun adjectival
: big; large; great
きょ kyo
巨大 ju4da4: huge; immense; very large; tremendous; gigantic; enormous
[きょだい kyodai]
巨人 ju4ren2: giant
[きょじん kyojin: giant; great man. Tokyo Giants (baseball team)]
巨額[额] ju4’e2: large sum (of money); a huge amount
[巨額 | きょがく kyogaku: great sum]
巨頭[头] ju4tou2: tycoon; magnate; big player (including company, country, school etc); big shot
[巨頭 | きょとう kyotou: leader; magnate; big head]
巨星 ju4xing1: giant star; superstar
[きょせい kyosei: giant star; great man; big-shot]
艱[艰]巨 jian1ju4: to be onerous; arduous; terrible (task); very difficult; formidable
十分艱[艰]巨 shi2fen1 jian1ju4: completely difficult task
甚巨shen4ju4: considerable; substantial; very great
Japanese common word / expression
巨頭鯨 | ごんどうくじら gondou kujira
: larger whales of family Delphinidae (esp. the pilot whales or blackfish)
巨蟹宮 | きょかいきゅう kyokaikyuu
: Cancer (4th zodiacal sign); the Crab
巨星墜つ | きょせいおつ kyoseiotsu
: death of a great man; the fall of a great star
進撃の巨人 Shingeki no Kyojin (Attack on Titan) is a manga series written and illustrated by Hajime Isayama. The series was first serialized on September 9, 2009, and has been collected into 14 tankōbon volumes as of August 8, 2014. The anime adaptation aired between April and September 2013 and gained a huge following. A live action film adaptation is also in production and set to premiere in 2015
Humans are trapped inside cities (within cities) surrounded by enormous walls as a defense against the Titans. Enter protagonists Eren Yeager, his adoptive sister Mikasa Ackerman and childhood friend Armin Arlert, who are forced to join the military to try to push back the Titans after Eren’s mother is cannibalized.
Chinese chengyu 成語 | idiom
事無巨細 [事无巨细] shi4 wu2 ju4 xi4
: lit. things are not separated according to their size; fig. to deal with any matter, regardless of its importance
創巨痛深 [创巨痛深] chuang1 ju4 tong4 shen1
: untold pain and suffering; deeply scarred for life
会意 Associative Compound.
Hand ⊐ holding a
carpenter’s square 工 (gong1: work; labor; radical #48]
巨 ju4 was traditionally classified under the 工 “work” radical. It is supposed to be a picture of a “large carpenter’s square with handle.” In modern dictionaries, the radical is “basket” or “box”
Historical Variant:
鉅 [钜] ju4: steel; iron; great.
[on: きよ kyo]
Examples:
從天上看下來， 這條河象一條巨蛇。
cong1 tian1shang4 kan1 xia4la. zhe4 tiao2 he2 xiang4 yi1tiao2 ju4 she2.
Seen from the sky, the river looks like a huge snake.
Resources: Chinese Dictionary | Japanese Dictionary
