He will come into a large fortune.
CHINESE DICTIONARY ENTRY
大笔
(formal, honorific) your writing; your handwriting
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DEFINITIONS & USAGE
Meaning and common use
01
(formal, honorific) your writing; your handwriting
02
pen; calligraphy brush
03
a large sum of (money)
REAL CORPUS EXAMPLES
How 大笔 actually appears in real sentences.
These sentences are copied from the Tatoeba corpus, so they are real usage rather than generated text. 大笔 appears in 3 of the 89,190 sentences we searched.
He has made a fortune through hard work.
He anonymously donated a large sum of money to the Red Cross.
COMMON COLLOCATIONS
Words that keep company with 大笔.
Counted from the same corpus: the word that most often comes directly before, and directly after, 大笔.
Directly before
- 了大笔2
- 继承大笔1
Directly after
- 大笔钱2
- 大笔的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 大笔
What does 大笔 mean in Chinese?
大笔 (dàbǐ) means (formal, honorific) your writing; your handwriting.
How do you pronounce 大笔?
大笔 is pronounced dàbǐ.
Is 大笔 an HSK word?
大笔 is on the list of the HSK 3.1 vocabulary syllabus.
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