Chinese mnemonics and annotator
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大 dà big
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#47
Chapter-05 HSK-A
3 strokes
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Explanation of characters by Herbert A. Giles
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Ta under one of its old forms looked very like the rude picture of a man. This gave rise to the following explanation:—Heaven is great, earth is great, and man too is great; therefore great is a picture of man. |
Chinese-English (CC-CEDICT)
大
dà
big/huge/large/major/great/wide/deep/older (than)/oldest/eldest/greatly/very much/(dialect) father/father's elder or younger brother
大
dài
see 大夫[dai4 fu5]
Phrases ending with the given character
伯伯bó
赛賽sài
大大dà
Bethsaida (city)
加jiā
拿ná
大dà
Canada/Canadian
北北běi
师師shī
大大dà
Beijing Normal University/abbr. for 北京師範大學|北京师范大学[Bei3 jing1 Shi1 fan4 Da4 xue2]
大dà
哥gē
大dà
cell phone (bulky, early-model one)/brick phone/mob boss
心xīn
眼yǎn
大dà
magnanimous/considerate/thoughtful/able to think of everything that needs to be thought of
拉lā
扯che
大dà
(coll.) to bring up/to rear/to raise
波bō
哥gē
大dà
Bogota, capital of Colombia
百bǎi
慕mù
大dà
Bermuda
习習xí
大大dà
大大dà
Papa Xi, nickname for Xi Jinping 習近平|习近平[Xi2 Jin4 ping2]
船chuán
老lǎo
大dà
coxswain/steersman/boatswain (bo'sun)
非非fēi
国國guó
大大dà
African National Congress, ANC/abbr. for 非洲人國民大會|非洲人国民大会[Fei1 zhou1 ren2 guo2 min2 da4 hui4]