(dà) - big, large, great in Mandarin
dàTraditional: 大
Translation
big, large, great
Word origin
大 is a pictograph showing a person standing with arms and legs outstretched, conveying 'big, large'. It is one of the oldest and simplest Chinese characters.
- Origin
- pictograph
- Root
- depicts a person with arms and legs spread wide
Stroke order
大
Examples
。
This is very big.
。
He is a grown-up now.
！
Hello everyone!
。
His home is very big.
。
This piece of clothing is too big.
大 (dà) means big, large, great. It is used as a adjective in everyday Mandarin speech.
Appears in 16 words
Multi-character compounds in the corpus that contain 大.
Used in
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(8)Grammar articles
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Mandarin Question Formation: 吗, V-Not-V, 还是, and the In-Situ Wh-Word System
The Mandarin 是…的 (shì...de) Construction: Highlighting When, Where, and How Something Happened
The Three de in Mandarin: 的, 得, and 地 and How to Tell Them Apart
Topic-Comment Structure in Mandarin: Fronting 这本书我看过 and Why Word Order Bends
Mandarin Word Order: SVO, Topic-Comment, and the 把 Construction That Reorders Everything
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