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CHINESE DICTIONARY ENTRY

天大

tiāndà

gargantuan

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DEFINITIONS & USAGE

Meaning and common use

01

gargantuan

02

as big as the sky

03

enormous

REAL CORPUS EXAMPLES

How 天大 actually appears in real sentences.

These sentences are copied from the Tatoeba corpus, so they are real usage rather than generated text. 天大 appears in 2 of the 89,190 sentences we searched. Sentences without a published English translation are shown in Chinese only.

也许这就是个天大的笑话。yě xǔ zhè jiù shì gè tiān dà de xiào huà。

Maybe this is all one big joke.

这只猫20天大了。zhè zhǐ māo 20 tiān dà le。

No published English translation for this sentence.

COMMON COLLOCATIONS

Words that keep company with 天大.

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

Directly before

  • 个天大1

Directly after

  • 天大了1
  • 天大的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 天大

What does 天大 mean in Chinese?

天大 (tiāndà) means gargantuan.

How do you pronounce 天大?

天大 is pronounced tiāndà.

Is 天大 an HSK word?

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

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