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大理 (Dà lǐ): meaning and stroke order

大理 (Dà lǐ) means see 大理白族自治州, see 大理市, judicial officer, justice of the peace (old).

大理

Simplified
大理
Traditional
大理 (same form)
Pinyin
Dà lǐ

Stroke order of 大理

大

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

Stroke by stroke

理

  • lǐ texture; grain (of wood)
  • 11 strokes

Stroke by stroke

Meaning of 大理

  1. Dà lǐ
    • see 大理白族自治州[Da4 li3 Bai2 zu2 Zi4 zhi4 zhou1]
    • see 大理市[Da4 li3 Shi4]
  2. dà lǐ
    • judicial officer
    • justice of the peace (old)

Radicals of the characters

大
Radical 大 (Kangxi radical 37) · 3 strokes · built from 一 and 人
理
Radical 玉 (Kangxi radical 96) · 11 strokes · 𤣩 on the left, 里 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.

大理 in our stories

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  • 在图书馆打工的邵峰对这件事特别好奇，他发现每本书写的都是一个城市：杭州、桂林、大理……

    zài túshūguǎn dǎgōng de Shào Fēng duì zhè jiàn shì tèbié hàoqí tā fāxiàn měi běn shū xiě de dōu shì yí gè chéngshì Hángzhōu Guìlín Dàlǐ

    Shao Feng, who worked part-time in the library, was very curious. He noticed that each book was about a city: Hangzhou, Guilin, Dali…

    From the story Flowers in the book return HSK 5

Stories using 大理

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).