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大月氏 (Dà Yuè zhī): meaning and stroke order

大月氏 (Dà Yuè zhī) means the Greater Yuezhi.

大月氏

Simplified
大月氏
Traditional
大月氏 (same form)
Pinyin
Dà Yuè zhī

Stroke order of 大月氏

大

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

Stroke by stroke

月

  • yuè moon; month
  • 4 strokes

Stroke by stroke

氏

  • shì (bound form) family name; surname (as in 王氏[Wang2 shi4] "the Wang clan"); (bound form) maiden name; née (as in 李王氏[Li3 Wang2 shi4] "Mrs. Li, née Wang")
  • zhī used in 月氏[Yue4 zhi1]; used in 閼氏|阏氏[yan1 zhi1]
  • 4 strokes

Stroke by stroke

Meaning of 大月氏

  1. Dà Yuè zhī
    • the Greater Yuezhi, a branch of the Yuezhi 月氏[Yue4 zhi1] people of central Asia during the Han dynasty

Radicals of the characters

大
Radical 大 (Kangxi radical 37) · 3 strokes · built from 一 and 人
月
Radical 月 (Kangxi radical 74) · 4 strokes
氏
Radical 氏 (Kangxi radical 83) · 4 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.

大月氏 in our stories

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  • 两千一百多年前，汉武帝想联合西边的大月氏，一起打败经常侵犯边境的匈奴。

    liǎngqiān yìbǎi duō nián qián Hàn Wǔdì xiǎng liánhé xībian de Dà Yuèzhī yìqǐ dǎbài jīngcháng qīnfàn biānjìng de Xiōngnú

    Over two thousand one hundred years ago, Emperor Wu of Han wanted to ally with the Yuezhi in the west to defeat the Xiongnu, who kept raiding the border.

    From the story Zhang Qian's mission to the West HSK 6

Stories using 大月氏

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).