大
Meaning
- big; large; great
- older (than another person)
- eldest (as in 大姐[da4 jie3])
Example sentence
我家很大。
My house is big.
Words containing 大
- 不大 bù dà not very (clear, far away etc); not too
- 大学 dà xué university; college
- 大学生 dà xué shēng university student; college student
- 大部分 dà bù fen the greater part; the majority; most
- 大大 dà dà greatly
- 大多数 dà duō shù (great) majority
- 大海 dà hǎi sea
- 大家 dà jiā everyone
- 大量 dà liàng great amount
- 大门 dà mén entrance
- 大人 dà ren adult
- 大声 dà shēng loud voice
- 大小 dà xiǎo large and small
- 大衣 dà yī overcoat
- 大自然 dà zì rán nature (the natural world)
- 长大 zhǎng dà to grow up
- 大概 dà gài roughly
- 大使馆 dà shǐ guǎn embassy
- 大约 dà yuē approximately
- 大夫 dài fu doctor; physician
- 广大 guǎng dà (of an area) vast or extensive
- 强大 qiáng dà big and strong; formidable; powerful
- 伟大 wěi dà huge; great; grand; worthy of the greatest admiration; important (contribution etc)
- 重大 zhòng dà great
Learned around the same time
- 错 cuò mistake
- 打 dǎ a semantically light, transitive verb that is combined with various grammatical objects to form compound verbs and verb-object phrases with a diverse range of meanings (e.g. 打傘|打伞[da3 san3] "to hold an umbrella", 打電話|打电话[da3 dian4 hua4] "to make a phone call", 打針|打针[da3 zhen1] "to get an injection", 打手套[da3 shou3 tao4] "to knit gloves", 打氣|打气[da3 qi4] "to inflate")
- 打车 dǎ chē to take a taxi (in town)
- 打电话 dǎ diàn huà to make a telephone call
- 打开 dǎ kāi to open
- 打球 dǎ qiú to play ball
- 到 dào to reach; to arrive
- 得到 dé dào to get; to obtain; to receive
- 地 de -ly
- 的 de of; ~'s (possessive particle)