Illustration: At a family kitchen table, a large tray is filled with neatly pleated dumplings in closely spaced rows. Only a small corner remains empty. Beside it sit two unused wrappers and a final spoonful of filling in an otherwise scraped-clean bowl.

JLPT N1adverbLevel estimated by Bebop

大おお方かた

ookata

mostly, almost

Example sentences

  1. あの仕事しごとは大方おおかた終おわってますよ。

    That job is pretty much finished.

    Tatoeba · CC BY 2.0 FR · Source

  2. 完全かんぜんに間違まちがっているよりは、大方おおかた合あっている方ほうがマシだ。

    It’s better to be approximately right than completely wrong.

    Tatoeba · CC BY 2.0 FR · Source

  3. 彼かれの言いっていることの大方おおかたに私わたしは同感どうかんである。

    I agree with most of what he says.

    Tatoeba · CC BY 2.0 FR · English by AI · Source

Kanji in 大方

  • 大large; bigOnダイ・タイKunおお-・おおきい
  • 方direction; personOnホウKunかた

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