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大学 (Dà xué): meaning and stroke order

大学 (Dà xué) means the Great Learning, one of the Four Books 四书 in Confucianism, university, college, CL:所.

大学

Simplified
大学
Traditional
大學
Pinyin
Dà xué

Stroke order of 大学

大

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

Stroke by stroke

学

  • xué to learn; to study
  • 8 strokes
  • Traditional form: 學

Stroke by stroke

Meaning of 大学

  1. Dà xué Traditional 大學
    • the Great Learning, one of the Four Books 四書|四书[Si4 shu1] in Confucianism
  2. dà xué Traditional 大學
    • university
    • college
    • CL:所[suo3]

Radicals of the characters

大
Radical 大 (Kangxi radical 37) · 3 strokes · built from 一 and 人
学
Radical 子 (Kangxi radical 39) · 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.

大学 in our stories

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  • 大学毕业以后，蒋悦离开了老家，一个人到成都工作。

    dàxué bìyè yǐhòu Jiǎng Yuè líkāi le lǎojiā yí gè rén dào Chéngdū gōngzuò

    After graduating, Jiang Yue left her hometown and went to Chengdu alone to work.

    From the story No chilli, please HSK 4

  • 大学毕业那年，沈佳去了加拿大读研究生，两个人之间差了十二个小时。

    dàxué bìyè nà nián Shěn Jiā qù le Jiānádà dú yánjiūshēng liǎng gè rén zhījiān chà le shí'èr gè xiǎoshí

    The year they graduated, Shen Jia went to Canada for a master's degree, twelve hours apart.

    From the story Twelve hours apart HSK 4

  • 在陆远的大学里，一直有一个传说：半夜十二点，老音乐楼里的钢琴会自己响起来。

    zài Lù Yuǎn de dàxué lǐ yìzhí yǒu yí gè chuánshuō bànyè shí'èr diǎn lǎo yīnyuèlóu lǐ de gāngqín huì zìjǐ xiǎng qǐlai

    At Lu Yuan's university there had long been a legend: at midnight, the piano in the old music building played by itself.

    From the story The piano at midnight HSK 4

Stories using 大学

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).