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大象

dà xiàng

Old HSK 5 HSK 3.0 level 5 2-character word Measure word 头

大象 (dà xiàng) means "elephant". It is an HSK 3.0 level 5 word, and was HSK 5 in the old six-level list.

What 大象 means

1. elephant

The characters in 大象

• 大dàbig; large; great; older (than another person); eldest (as in 大姐
• 象xiàngelephant; shape; form

Example sentences

• 大象很大。
  The elephant is big.
• 神是大象。
  God is an elephant.
• 你喜欢大象。
  You like elephants.
• 大象鼻子长。
  An elephant has a long nose.
• 大象有长鼻子。
  An elephant has a long nose.
• 你看过大象飞吗？
  Have you ever seen an elephant fly?

Words containing 大象

• 房间里的大象fáng jiān lǐ de dà xiàngthe elephant in the room

Sounds the same

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

• 大项main item (of program)

Where 大象 is taught

In the GraphChinese course it is part of Nature, Landscape & Wild Animals (HSK 5), each one a topic in the dependency graph of HSK 1–6 that opens only once its prerequisites are solid.

Go deeper

• Every HSK 5 word, with the rest of its level.
• The four tones and the neutral tone, to read dà xiàng correctly.
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