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Mythic Mandarin

伟大 (wěi dà): meaning and stroke order

伟大 (wěi dà) means huge; great; grand; worthy of the greatest admiration; important (contribution etc).

伟大

Simplified
伟大
Traditional
偉大
Pinyin
wěi dà

Stroke order of 伟大

伟

  • wěi big; large
  • 6 strokes
  • Traditional form: 偉

Stroke by stroke

大

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

Stroke by stroke

Meaning of 伟大

  1. wěi dà Traditional 偉大
    • huge; great; grand; worthy of the greatest admiration; important (contribution etc)

Radicals of the characters

伟
Radical 人 (Kangxi radical 9) · 6 strokes · 亻 on the left, 韦 on the right
大
Radical 大 (Kangxi radical 37) · 3 strokes · built from 一 and 人

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.

伟大 in our stories

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  • 人们相信，只有世界太平、有伟大的人出生的时候，麒麟才会出现。

    rénmen xiāngxìn zhǐyǒu shìjiè tàipíng yǒu wěidà de rén chūshēng de shíhou qílín cái huì chūxiàn

    People believed that the qilin appeared only when the world was at peace and a great person was born.

    From the story The qilin HSK 4

Stories using 伟大

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).