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大意

dà yì

Old HSK 6 HSK 3.0 level 7-9 2-character word

大意 (dà yì) means "general idea; main idea; careless". It is an HSK 3.0 level 7-9 word, and was HSK 6 in the old six-level list.

What 大意 means

1. general idea
2. main idea

Other readings

大意 is 多音字 — it is read more than one way, and the reading changes the meaning.

• dà yicareless

The characters in 大意

• 大dàbig; large; great; older (than another person); eldest (as in 大姐
• 意yì(bound form) idea; thought; meaning; sense; (bound form) intention; feeling; inclination…

Example sentences

• 我承认我大意了。
  Wǒ chéngrèn wǒ dàyì le.
  I admit that I was careless.

Words containing 大意

• 粗心大意cū xīn dà yìnegligent; careless; inadvertent
• 疏忽大意shū hu dà yìoversight; negligence; careless

Sounds the same

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

• 大义righteousness; virtuous cause; a woman's marriage
• 大邑see 大邑县

Where 大意 is taught

In the GraphChinese course it is part of HSK 6 Vocabulary · dài–tán (HSK 6), 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 6 word, with the rest of its level.
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