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Mythic Mandarin

大事 (dà shì): meaning and stroke order

大事 (dà shì) means major event, major political event (war or change of regime).

大事

Simplified
大事
Traditional
大事 (same form)
Pinyin
dà shì

Stroke order of 大事

大

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

Stroke by stroke

事

  • shì matter; thing
  • 8 strokes

Stroke by stroke

Meaning of 大事

  1. dà shì
    • major event
    • major political event (war or change of regime)
    • major social event (wedding or funeral)
    • (do sth) in a big way
    • CL:件[jian4],樁|桩[zhuang1]

Radicals of the characters

大
Radical 大 (Kangxi radical 37) · 3 strokes · built from 一 and 人
事
Radical 亅 (Kangxi radical 6) · 8 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.

大事 in our stories

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  • 他对妻子说：“打仗是关系到生死的大事，这孩子却说得那么轻松。将来赵国要是让他带兵，军队一定会毁在他手里。”

    tā duì qīzi shuō dǎzhàng shì guānxì dào shēngsǐ de dàshì zhè háizi què shuō de nàme qīngsōng jiānglái Zhàoguó yàoshi ràng tā dàibīng jūnduì yídìng huì huǐ zài tā shǒu lǐ

    He said to his wife: "War is a matter of life and death, yet the boy talks about it so lightly. If Zhao ever puts him in command, the army is sure to be destroyed in his hands."

    From the story Fighting battles on paper HSK 7–9 · Level 8

Stories using 大事

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).