(dà jiā) - everyone, everybody in Mandarin
dàjiāTraditional: 大家
HSK 2
#194 of 5,000 Core 1000
Translation
everyone, everybody
Word origin
The word 大家 combines 大 'big' with 家 'family, household', literally 'the big family', extended to mean 'everyone'. 家 shows a pig 豕 under a roof 宀, the household animal under the home.
- Origin
- compound
- Root
- 大 (dà, big) + 家 (jiā, household: 宀 roof + 豕 pig)
Stroke order
大
家
Examples
！
Hello everyone!
。
Everyone has come.
！
Thank you everyone!
。
Let us all have a meal together.
。
Everyone has agreed.
大家 (dà jiā) means everyone, everybody. It is used as a pronoun in everyday Mandarin speech.
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