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大家

dà jiā

HSK 2 2-character word

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)