达
dáTraditional: 达
#1127 of 5,000 Core 5000
Translation
to reach, to attain, to express
Word origin
A phono-semantic compound with the walk radical signalling movement to a destination and a phonetic element. It means to arrive at or attain.
- Origin
- phono-semantic compound
- Root
- 辶 (walk) + 大 (dà, phonetic in the simplified form)
Stroke order
达
Examples
。
The train finally arrived.
。
He reached his goal.
。
Please convey my thanks to him.
传。
The message has been passed down.
。
The water level reached the warning line.
达 (dá) means to reach, to attain, to express. It rarely stands alone, appearing in compounds like 到达 and 表达.
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Multi-character compounds in the corpus that contain 达.
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