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Pīnyīn Pronunciation
dà | da4
English translation
big
huge
large
major
great
wide
deep
older (than)
oldest
eldest
greatly
very much
(dialect) father
father's elder or younger brother
big, great, vast, high, deep
Pīnyīn Pronunciation
dài | dai4
English translation
see 大夫 dàfū [dài fu]

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Number of strokes

3

Radical frequency

132

Traditional form

Contains the radical

Part of speech

Adjective / 形容词 xíng róng cí Xíngróng cí

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A man  rén with outstretched arms

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Type

ideographic

Positional decomposition

一人

Explanation

Pictograph of a person with outstretched arms, representing the meaning "big".

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chūn huí 大地 dà dì ,万象更新 wàn xiàng gēng xīn .

Spring comes round to the earth again and everything looks fresh and gay.

大夫 dàfū le de mài , yòu qiáo 了瞧我的嗓子 sǎngzi .

The doctor felt my pulse and looked down my throat.

zhǐ xiǎng 大声 dà shēng jiào 一阵 yī zhèn , jiào 自己 zìjǐ 快要 kuài yào biē 透不过气 lái le .

He wanted to shout; he was suffocating.

" yuàn 愿意 yuànyì ràng dào 亚特兰大 Yà tè lán dà ,去刻 shǎng 几个 jǐ ge ya ?

" Would you like for me to take it to Atlanta and have it engraved? "

duì 这些 zhè xiē mèng suǒ 显示 xiǎnshì 出来 chū lái de 肤浅 fū qiǎn de 爱好 àihào 大为 dà wéi 失望 shīwàng .

I was badly disappointed by the shallow interests such dreams betrayed.

Words with

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FrequencySimplifiedMeaningTraditional
big
大家 dàjiā everyone大家 dàjiā
大学 Dà xué university大學
大概 dàgài roughly大概 dàgài
伟大 wěidà huge偉大
大量 dà liàng great amount大量 dà liàng
巨大 jùdà huge巨大 jùdà
重大 zhòngdà great重大 zhòngdà
大人 dà ren adult大人 dà ren
意大利 Yì dà lì Italy意大利 Yì dà lì
强大 qiáng dà large強大
大部分 dà bù fen in large part大部分 dà bù fen
扩大 kuòdà to expand擴大
大多数 dà duō shù (great) majority大多數
大约 dàyuē probably大約
大会 dà huì general assembly大會
广大 guǎngdà large-scale廣大
大型 dàxíng large大型 dàxíng
大街 dà jiē street大街 dà jiē
大脑 dà nǎo brain大腦
长大 zhǎng dà to grow up長大
加大 jiā dà to increase (e.g. one's effort)加大 jiā dà
较大 jiào dà comparatively large較大
大大 dà dà greatly大大 dà dà
大楼 dà lóu building (a relatively large, multi-storey one)大樓

Decomposition & Compounds

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Compounds

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    • tiān
      • Guān
        • sòng
          • xx ,
        • juǎn
          • juān , juàn , quán , quǎn , quán , quān , quán , juǎn , quán , , , , , , , , , quǎn , , , , ,
        • quán
        • Zhèng
        • juàn
          • ,
        • téng
          • téng ,
        • juǎn
          • quān , juǎn
        • téng
        • juàn
        • téng
        • juàn
        • téng
        • juàn
          • yìng , yàng , , , yǎng , ,
        • juàn
          • , , lèi
        • lián , téng , quàn , zhèn , , huàn , guān , chéng , quān , zhèn , téng , shèng , juàn , xiǎng , dài , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , ,
      • zòu
        • , , , , , , , , , , ,
      • hào
      • guǐ
        • kuí , kuí , kuí , kuí , kuí , kuí , què , kuí , , , , , , ,
      • tūn , cán , wěng , xiān , , , , , ,
    • tài
        • ,
      • tài , tài , tài , tài , tài , dāi , tài , tài , tuó , , , dài ,
    • yīn
      • ēn
      • yān , yīn , yān , yīn , yān , yīn , yīn , yīn , yān , yīn , , yīn , yīn , yīn , , , , ,
    • tóu
    • Měi
      • gēng , měi , měi , měi , měi , , měi
    • shī
      • Tiě , diē , zhì , dié , , , , zhì , chì , dié , zhí , , dié , dié , zhì , zhì , zhí , dié , , , , , , , , , , ,
      • guī
        • qián , jiàn , , ,
      • jiā
      • niǎn
      • guī
        • guī , , , , kuī ,
        • , zuǎn , , , , , ,
      • niǎn
      • , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , guī , , , , , , ,
      • , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , ,
    • lèi
      • lèi
        • ,
    • Ào
      • ào , , , , ǎo ,
    • fèn
    • shuǎng
      • shuǎng , , , , , , , ,
    • jiān
    • nài
      • nài , , nǎi , nài
    • kuā
        • huà
      • kuǎ , kuà , kuà , , kuà , , , , kuǎ , páo , kuā , 洿, , , , , , , , , kuā , , , , ,
    • bēn
      • bēn , , , , , , , ,
    • quǎn
      • yàn
        • , , ,
      • chòu
        • xiù , qiǔ , xiù , , chòu , ,
      • xiàn
        • , , , , , , ,
        • lèi , , liè , , , ,
      • jiā
        • , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , ,
      • biāo
        • biāo ,
        • , , , , , , ,
        • yàn
          • , , , , , , 檿, , yàn , yǎn ,
      • xiàn
        • ,
      • zhuàng , , , fèi , áo , shū , yǎn , yìn , yóu , dāi , shòu , quǎn , rán , , , , zhuàng , , jiǎng , , shòu , , ,
    • yāng
      • Yīng
        • yīng , yīng , yīng , Yīng , yīng , yīng , yīng , yīng , , , , , , , , , ,
      • huàn
      • yìng , àng , yāng , yāng , yāng , yàng , yāng , jiǎn , yǎng , yǎng , yāng , yāng , yāng , , , , , , , , , , , , , yāng
      • xiē , qiè , , qiè , , xiè , , xiē , , , , , , qiā
      • , , , , , , , , , , tiě , , , , , , ,
    • kuí
      • kuí , kuí , kuǐ , , ,
    • shē
      • , ,
    • mǎng
    • yāo
      • tiǎn
        • tiān , tiǎn , tián , , , tiàn
      • tūn
        • qiáo
          • juē , juē , jiāo , xiāo , jiāo , jiǎo , qiáo , jiǎo , qiáo , , , , jiāo , , , qiáo , , , , jiǎo , , , , qiáo , , , jiào , , , jiāo
      • xiào , yuè , yāo , ǎo , ào , yāo , , , , , , , , , yǐng , , , , , , ,
    • yǎn
    • shǐ
      • zhī
          • ,
        • níng , ài , , , , , , , chī , , ,
        • , , , ,
      • hóu
        • hòu , hóu , hóu , hòu , hóu , hóu , hóu , hóu , gōu , hòu , , hóu , 帿, , , ,
      • zhì
      • duǎn , ǎi , jiǎo , cuó , , kuǎn , hóu , shěn , zēng , yuē , , yǐng , , jiǎo , , , , , , ,
      • , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , 谿, , , , , ,
    • fán
    • ào
      • ō , ào , , ,
    • jiā
        • qiáng , , , qiáng , , , , qiáng , , , , qiáng
      • mài
        • , miàn , miàn , pào , , , móu , , , , , , , , , , miàn , ,
      • xiá , xié , jiá , , , xiá , xiá , , , jiá , , , jiá , jiá ,
    • guài
      • kuài
      • jué
      • kuài , quē , jué , guì , mèi , jué , jué , jué , jué , , jué , jué , , , , jué , , jué , , , jué ,
    • zhā
    • shì
    • juàn
      • liè , , lèi
    • ruǎn
      • ruán , ruǎn , réng , nuǎn , , , , , , , , , , ,
      • ,
    • tāo
      • gāo
        • áo , háo , gāo , , , , ,
      • bào
      • zòu
      • chūn
        • chǔn , 椿 chūn , chūn , , , , , , , chūn , , , , , , , chūn
      • fèng
        • bàng , pěng , fèng , fěng , běng , běng , běng , , bàng
      • qín
        • zhēn , qín , zhēn , qín , zhēn , zhēn , qín , , , , , ,
      • chōng
        • , zhuāng ,
    • huàn
    • tái
    • , tào , jiǎng , qìng , duó , qiān , , sān , diàn , , tuó , , fèn , hāng , lián , zàng , , , kuǎng , diǎn , fěi , jiǎng , yūn , jiǎng , , shì , , , cuàn , , , , , , , , 夿, , , , , , , , , , , lián , ,
    • , bào , , , , , , tuó
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