大
Meaning
- big; large; great
- older (than another person)
- eldest (as in 姐)
- greatly; freely; fully
- (dialect) father
- (dialect) uncle (father's brother)
dài dai4
- see 夫
Example sentences
- His greatest fault is talking too much.
- This table is just as large as ours.
- I don't know whether he's younger or older than me.
- You are old enough to know better than to act like that.
HSK words with 大 · 24 of 112
- 大学dàxuéuniversity
- 大学生dàxuéshēnguniversity student
- 不大bùdànot very
- 大家dàjiāeveryone
- 长大zhǎngdàto grow up
- 大量dàliànggreat amount
- 大部分dàbùfenin large part
- 大多数dàduōshù(great) majority
- 大人dàrenadult
- 大声dàshēngloud voice
- 大大dàdàgreatly
- 大门dàménentrance
- 大小dàxiǎodimension
- 大海dàhǎisea
- 大衣dàyīovercoat
- 大自然dàzìránnature (the natural world)
- 伟大wěidàhuge; great; grand; worthy of the greatest admiration; important (contribution etc)
- 大概dàgàiroughly
- 重大zhòngdàgreat
- 强大qiángdàlarge
- 大约dàyuēapproximately
- 大夫dàfūsenior official (in imperial China)
- 广大guǎngdà(of an area) vast or extensive
- 大使馆dàshǐguǎnembassy