大家

Character by character

• 大dà3 strokesHSK 1big, great, vast, large, high
• 家jiā10 strokesHSK 1 traditional 傢house, home, residence; family

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Example sentences

• 大家好。

  Dà jiā hǎo

  Hi, everybody.

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Words with the same characters

These words share at least one character with 大家. Reading them together is how the character starts to stick — the same characters in a different context.

• 大dàHSK 1

  big; large; great; older (than another person); eldest (as in 姐); greatly; freely; fully; (dialect) father; (dialect) uncle (father's brother)

• 家jiāHSK 1

  home; family; (polite) my (sister, uncle etc); classifier for families or businesses; refers to the philosophical schools of pre-Han China; noun suffix for a specialist in some activity, such as a musician or revolutionary, corresponding to English -ist, -er, -ary or -ian

• 国家guó jiāHSK 1

  country; nation; state

• 回家huí jiāHSK 1

  to return home

• 家庭jiā tíngHSK 2

  family; household

• 大学dà xuéHSK 1

  university; college

• 家里jiā lǐHSK 1

  home

• 专家zhuān jiāHSK 3

  expert; specialist

• 伟大wěi dàHSK 3

  huge; great; grand; worthy of the greatest admiration; important (contribution etc)

• 长大zhǎng dàHSK 2

  to grow up

• 巨大jù dàHSK 4

  huge; immense; very large; tremendous; gigantic; enormous

• 家人jiā rénHSK 1

  family member; (old) servant

• 大概dà gàiHSK 3

  roughly; probably; rough; approximate; about; general idea

• 重大zhòng dàHSK 3

  great; important; major; significant

• 家伙jiā huoHSK 7

  household dish, implement or furniture; domestic animal; (coll.) guy; chap; weapon

• 大量dà liàngHSK 2

  great amount; large quantity; bulk; numerous; generous; magnanimous

• 强大qiáng dàHSK 3

  large; formidable; powerful; strong

• 人家rén jiāHSK 4

  household; dwelling; family; sb else's house; household business; house of woman's husband-to-be

• 大部分dà bù fenHSK 2

  in large part; the greater part; the majority

• 大多数dà duō shùHSK 2

  (great) majority

• 大约dà yuēHSK 3

  approximately; probably

• 大人dà renHSK 2

  adult; grownup; title of respect toward superiors

• 大会dà huìHSK 4

  general assembly; general meeting; convention

• 在家zài jiāHSK 1

  to be at home; (at a workplace) to be in (as opposed to being away on official business 差); (Buddhism etc) to remain a layman (as opposed to becoming a monk or a nun 家)