IDENTITY
大dàbig; large; adult
HSK 1Top 14
CORE MEANING
big; large; adult
- Part of speech
- adjective
- Register
- neutral
Senses
- 1.bigHSK1
- 2.grown-up; seniorHSK1
FORM & BREAKDOWN
- Radical
- 大big radical (dà)
- strokes
- 3
- Structure
- single component
- IDS sequence
- ⿻一人
- the bar across
- a person with arms stretched wide
USAGE
Common words
大学dàxuéuniversity
大家dàjiāeveryone
大人dàrénadult
Graded examples
这个苹果很大。Zhège píngguǒ hěn dà.HSK1
This apple is very big.
RELATIONS
Lookalike — don’t mix up
- 太
- 犬
POEM LINES WITH THIS CHARACTER
LEARNING
Memory aid
A person (人) stretching both arms wide — as big as possible.
- HSK version
- 3.0
- Frequency rank
- #14
- Memory aid
- memory-aid
TRUST & SOURCES
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- AI-assisted editorial review
- Last reviewed
- 2026-08-14
Sources
- CC-CEDICT 2026-01-01
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