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大家

dà jiā

Old HSK 2 HSK 3.0 level 1 2-character word

大家 (dà jiā) means "everyone". It is an HSK 3.0 level 1 word, and was HSK 2 in the old six-level list.

What 大家 means

1. everyone
2. influential family
3. great expert

The characters in 大家

• 大dàbig; large; great; older (than another person); eldest (as in 大姐
• 家jiāused in 家伙

Example sentences

• 大家好。
  Hi, everybody.
• 大家好！
  Hi, everybody!
• 大家开始笑
  Dàjiā kāishǐ xiào
  They all began to laugh.
• 大家好吗？
  How is everyone?
• 大家笑了。
  Everybody laughed.
• 大家齐了。
  All were present.

Words starting with 大家

• 大家庭dà jiā tíngextended family; big family; harmonious group
• 大家伙儿dà jiā huǒ r(colloquial) everyone; all of us; you folks

Sounds the same

Read dà jiā, tone for tone, but written differently.

• 大加(before a two-syllable verb) considerably; greatly (exaggerate); vehemently (oppose)

Where 大家 is taught

In the GraphChinese course it is part of Family Members (HSK 2), each one a topic in the dependency graph of HSK 1–6 that opens only once its prerequisites are solid.

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• Every HSK 2 word, with the rest of its level.
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