Traditional: 达

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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

Stroke order for 达

Examples

The train finally arrived.

He reached his goal.

Please convey my thanks to him.

chuán

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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This word is part of lesson 23.