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Mythic Mandarin

大三 (dà sān): meaning and stroke order

大三 (dà sān) means third year of university.

大三

Simplified
大三
Traditional
大三 (same form)
Pinyin
dà sān

Stroke order of 大三

大

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

Stroke by stroke

三

  • Sān surname San
  • sān three; 3
  • 3 strokes

Stroke by stroke

Meaning of 大三

  1. dà sān
    • third year of university

Radicals of the characters

大
Radical 大 (Kangxi radical 37) · 3 strokes · built from 一 and 人
三
Radical 一 (Kangxi radical 1) · 3 strokes

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.

大三 in our stories

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  • 大三那年，她偷偷报了一个周末的甜点班，每个星期六都跟家里说去图书馆。

    dàsān nà nián tā tōutōu bào le yí gè zhōumò de tiándiǎn bān měi gè xīngqīliù dōu gēn jiāli shuō qù túshūguǎn

    In her third year she secretly signed up for a weekend pastry course, and every Saturday she told her family she was going to the library.

    From the story The three-tier cake HSK 5

Stories using 大三

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).