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大致

dà zhì

Old HSK 6 HSK 3.0 level 6 2-character word

大致 (dà zhì) means "roughly, approximately". It is an HSK 3.0 level 6 word, and was HSK 6 in the old six-level list.

What 大致 means

1. more or less; roughly; approximately

The characters in 大致

• 大dàbig; large; great; older (than another person); eldest (as in 大姐
• 致zhì(bound form) fine; delicate; exquisite

Example sentences

• 我大致上同意她。
  Wǒ dàzhì shàng tóngyì tā.
  I generally agree with her.
• 这个项目我大致了解。
  Zhège xiàngmù wǒ dàzhì liǎojiě.
  I know about this project for the most part.
• 我不喜欢茶，所以我早餐大致上都喝咖啡。
  Wǒ bù xǐhuan chá, suǒyǐ wǒ zǎocān dàzhì Shàngdū hē kāfēi.
  I do not like tea, so I generally drink coffee for breakfast.
• 我的汉语并不完美，但能大致听懂他所说的。
  My Chinese is far from perfect, but I can roughly understand everything he is saying.
• 以英语唱的歌剧，大致上和以意大利语玩的棒球般过得去。
  Yǐ Yīngyǔ chàng de gējù, dàzhì shàng hé yǐ Yìdàlìyǔ wán de bàngqiú bān guòdéqù.
  Opera in English is, in the main, just about as sensible as baseball in Italian.
• 虽然有一些印刷错误, 但大致上说来, 这是一本好书。
  There are some misprints, but all in all, it's a good book.

Sounds the same

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

• 大志high aims

Where 大致 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.

Go deeper

• Every HSK 6 word, with the rest of its level.
• The four tones and the neutral tone, to read dà zhì correctly.
• Look up another word in the free dictionary.