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CHINESE DICTIONARY ENTRY

大写

dàxiě

capital letters

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DEFINITIONS & USAGE

Meaning and common use

01

capital letters

02

uppercase letters

03

block letters

04

banker's anti-fraud numerals

REAL CORPUS EXAMPLES

How 大写 actually appears in real sentences.

These sentences are copied from the Tatoeba corpus, so they are real usage rather than generated text. 大写 appears in 3 of the 89,190 sentences we searched. Sentences without a published English translation are shown in Chinese only.

我没想大写的。wǒ méi xiǎng dà xiě de。

I didn't mean to capitalize this.

请别忘了用大写。qǐng bié wàng le yòng dà xiě。

Do not forget to capitalize.

麻将中的万子牌,只有「伍万」是大写。má jiāng zhōng de wàn zi pái, zhǐ yǒu 「wǔ wàn」 shì dà xiě。

No published English translation for this sentence.

COMMON COLLOCATIONS

Words that keep company with 大写.

Counted from the same corpus: the word that most often comes directly before, and directly after, 大写.

Directly before

  • 用大写1
  • 没想大写1
  • 是大写1

Directly after

  • 大写的1
ABOUT THIS ENTRY

Where this entry comes from

The HSK level, part of speech, and pronunciation come from the HSK 3.1 vocabulary syllabus. The English definitions come from CC-CEDICT. Corpus sentences, collocations, and the frequency figure come from the Tatoeba Chinese sentence export and are counted rather than written, so nothing on this page is invented. Usage notes and the hand-written examples that appear higher up exist only for a handful of entries.

Definitions from CC-CEDICT, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0. Vocabulary levels and parts of speech from the HSK 3.1 syllabus. This compiled dictionary is shared under the same CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.

COMMON QUESTIONS

About 大写

What does 大写 mean in Chinese?

大写 (dàxiě) means capital letters.

How do you pronounce 大写?

大写 is pronounced dàxiě.

Is 大写 an HSK word?

大写 is on the list of the HSK 3.1 vocabulary syllabus.

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