大
Pinyin IPA [ta˥˩] Zhuyin
HSK 1 adjective 形容词 Book 1 · Lesson 5 freq #66
Meaning
- adjective 形容词 (of age) old
Big, large — in size, age, or degree. Its opposite is 小. It also asks and states age: 你多大？ means "how old are you?".
- big; large; great
- older (than another person)
- eldest (as in 大姐[da4 jie3])
- greatly; freely; fully
- (dialect) father
- (dialect) uncle (father's brother)
Examples
| 大家好！ | dà jiā hǎo | Hi, everybody. |
| 我家很大。 | wǒ jiā hěn dà | My house is big. |
| 那是很大的。 | nà shì hěn dà de | That's very big. |
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