大 (dà) means Big (oldest). Below are 24 of the 71 sentences on this site that use it — with pinyin, an English translation and audio. All of them were written by hand; none is machine generated.
Dictionary examples
From the graded readers
大 家鼓掌了。
dàjiā gǔzhǎng le / liǎo / liào.
The audience applauded.
Graded reader · HSK 4 · My First Speech
房间不 大 ，可是很干净。
fángjiān búdà, kěshì hěn gānjìng.
It isn't big, but it's very clean.
Graded reader · HSK 2 · My New Room
我以为这样 大 家会喜欢我。
wǒ yǐwéi zhèyàng dàjiā huì xǐhuan wǒ.
I thought people would like me for it.
Graded reader · HSK 4 · Learning to Say No
她今年十六岁，比我 大 一岁。
tā jīnnián shíliù suì, bǐ wǒ dà yī suì.
She's sixteen this year, one year older than me.
Graded reader · HSK 1 · My Friend Lili
信上的字写得很 大 ，很认真。
xìn shàng de / dì zì xiě dehěn dà, hěn rènzhēn.
The characters on the page were large and carefully formed.
Graded reader · HSK 3 · A Letter From Grandmother
月亮又 大 又圆，比平时亮得多。
yuèliàng yòu dà yòu yuán, bǐ píngshí liàng deduō.
The moon was big and round, far brighter than usual.
Graded reader · HSK 3 · Mid-Autumn Festival
From the travel phrasebook
量 大 从优。
Liàng dà cóng yōu.
Better price for larger volumes.
Travel phrasebook · Negotiating and pricing
有没有更 大 的？
Yǒu méiyǒu gèng dà de?
Do you have anything bigger?
Travel phrasebook · Shopping and bargaining
大 概三十五天到港。
Dàgài sānshíwǔ tiān dào gǎng.
About 35 days to port.
Travel phrasebook · Shipping and customs
大 appears in 71 sentences on this site; the 24 shortest and most direct are shown. The rest are on the pages they were written for — the graded readers, the phrasebook and the grammar library.
Words that contain 大
Each of these has sentences of its own, so you can see the character doing a different job in each one.
Questions about 大
How is 大 used in a sentence?
This page shows 71 sentences using 大 (dà, "Big (oldest)"), each with pinyin, an English translation and audio. Every one of them was written by hand for this site.
Are these sentences machine generated?
No. They come from the site's own dictionary examples, graded readers, travel phrasebook and grammar library — all written by a person. A word with no sentence gets no page here, rather than a page of invented ones.
Why do some sentences show 大 inside a longer word?
Because that is where a single character usually lives. Seeing 大 inside the words it builds is how the character stops being an isolated symbol and starts being something you can read.
Is 大 an HSK word?
Yes — 大 is on the official HSK 1 vocabulary list, and you can study it with the rest of that list on the HSK 1 page.
Where can I see the full entry for 大?
The dictionary page for 大 has its stroke order, its traditional form, every sense the dictionary lists and a character-by-character breakdown. It is linked at the top of this page.
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