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Mythic Mandarin

大败 (dà bài): meaning and stroke order

大败 (dà bài) means to defeat, to inflict a defeat on sb.

大败

Simplified
大败
Traditional
大敗
Pinyin
dà bài

Stroke order of 大败

大

  • dà big; large; great; older (than another person)
  • dài see 大夫[dai4 fu5]
  • 3 strokes

Stroke by stroke

败

  • bài to defeat; to damage
  • 8 strokes
  • Traditional form: 敗

Stroke by stroke

Meaning of 大败

  1. dà bài Traditional 大敗
    • to defeat
    • to inflict a defeat on sb

Radicals of the characters

大
Radical 大 (Kangxi radical 37) · 3 strokes · built from 一 and 人
败
Radical 贝 (Kangxi radical 154) in its simplified form · 8 strokes · 贝 on the left, 攵 on the right

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.

大败 in our stories

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  • 这一仗从天上打到地下，打得山崩地裂，最后共工大败，狼狈地逃到了西北的不周山下。

    zhè yí zhàng cóng tiān shàng dǎ dào dì xià dǎ de shānbēng-dìliè zuìhòu Gònggōng dàbài lángbèi de táo dào le xīběi de Bùzhōu Shān xià

    The battle raged from the heavens to the underworld until mountains fell and the earth split; at last Gonggong was routed and fled in disarray to the foot of Mount Buzhou in the north-west.

    From the story Nüwa mends the sky HSK 7–9 · Level 7

Stories using 大败

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).