大 (dà): meaning and stroke order
大 (dà) means big; large; great, older (than another person), eldest (as in 大姐), greatly; freely; fully.
大
- Simplified
- 大
- Traditional
- 大 (same form)
- Pinyin
- dà · dài
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Stroke order of 大
大
- dà big; large; great; older (than another person)
- dài see 大夫[dai4 fu5]
- 3 strokes
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Meaning of 大
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dà
- big; large; great
- older (than another person)
- eldest (as in 大姐[da4 jie3])
- greatly; freely; fully
- (dialect) father
- (dialect) uncle (father's brother)
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dài
- see 大夫[dai4 fu5]
Radical and structure
- 大
- Radical 大 (Kangxi radical 37) · 3 strokes · built from 一 and 人
Radicals and stroke counts: Unicode Unihan database. Structure: the shapes a character is written with (BabelStone IDS), not necessarily parts that carry meaning or sound.
Words with 大
- 大学 Dà xué the Great Learning, one of the Four Books 四書|四书[Si4 shu1] in Confucianism
- 大地 dà dì earth; mother earth
- 大家 dà jiā everyone; influential family
- 大海 dà hǎi sea; ocean
- 高大 gāo dà tall; lofty; towering
- 长大 zhǎng dà to grow up
- 大三 dà sān third year of university
- 大口 dà kǒu big mouthful (of food, drink, smoke etc); open mouth
- 大事 dà shì major event; major political event (war or change of regime)
- 大理 dà lǐ judicial officer; justice of the peace (old)
- 大多 dà duō for the most part; many
- 大火 dà huǒ conflagration; large fire; CL:場|场[chang2]
大 in our stories
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“苹果很大，很好吃！”
píngguǒ hěn dà hěn hǎochī
"The apples are big and very tasty!"
From the story Buying apples HSK 1
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也有一个大蛋糕！
yě yǒu yí gè dà dàngāo
There's a big cake too!
From the story Happy birthday HSK 1
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“还有一个大房间，一个晚上五百块，可以吗？”
háiyǒu yí gè dà fángjiān yí gè wǎnshang wǔbǎi kuài kěyǐ ma
"There's still one big room, five hundred yuan a night. Is that all right?"
From the story Next Friday HSK 2
Where you learn it
大 appears in the vocabulary of our HSK 1 learning material. This is a Mythic Mandarin word list, not an official HSK list.
Stories using 大
- Buying apples HSK 1
- Happy birthday HSK 1
- Next Friday HSK 2
- Making dumplings HSK 2
- The little dragon and the rain HSK 2
- The cheap room HSK 3
Dictionary data: CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0). Stroke data: Hanzi Writer data, derived from Make Me a Hanzi (Arphic Public License). Animation: Hanzi Writer (MIT licence). Radicals and stroke counts: Unicode Unihan (Unicode License v3).