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大衣

dà yī

HSK 3.0 level 3 2-character word Measure word 件

大衣 (dà yī) means "overcoat". It is an HSK 3.0 level 3 word, and was not on the old six-level HSK list.

What 大衣 means

1. overcoat
2. topcoat
3. cloak

The characters in 大衣

• 大dàbig; large; great; older (than another person); eldest (as in 大姐
• 衣yīclothes; Kangxi radical 145

Example sentences

• 他脱掉了大衣。
  He took off his overcoat.
• 那是我的大衣。
  That's my coat.
• 毛皮大衣在打折。
  Fur coats are on sale.

Words containing 大衣

• 派克大衣pài kè dà yīparka jacket (loanword)
• 白大衣高血压bái dà yī gāo xuè yāwhite coat hypertension; white coat syndrome

Sounds the same

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

• 大一first year of university

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• The four tones and the neutral tone, to read dà yī correctly.
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