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Mythic Mandarin

大河 (dà hé): meaning and stroke order

大河 (dà hé) means large river (esp the Yellow River).

大河

Simplified
大河
Traditional
大河 (same form)
Pinyin
dà hé

Stroke order of 大河

大

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

Stroke by stroke

河

  • hé river (CL:條|条[tiao2],道[dao4]); (bound form) the Yellow River
  • 8 strokes

Stroke by stroke

Meaning of 大河

  1. dà hé
    • large river (esp the Yellow River)

Radicals of the characters

大
Radical 大 (Kangxi radical 37) · 3 strokes · built from 一 and 人
河
Radical 水 (Kangxi radical 85) · 8 strokes · 氵 on the left, 可 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.

大河 in our stories

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  • 他跑过了一座又一座高山，跨过了一条又一条大河，脚下扬起的尘土遮住了半边天。

    tā pǎo guò le yí zuò yòu yí zuò gāoshān kuà guò le yì tiáo yòu yì tiáo dàhé jiǎo xià yángqǐ de chéntǔ zhē zhù le bànbiāntiān

    He ran over mountain after mountain and strode across river after river, and the dust raised by his feet blotted out half the sky.

    From the story Kuafu chases the sun HSK 7–9 · Level 9

Stories using 大河

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).