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大陆

dà lù

HSK 3.0 level 7-9 2-character word Traditional 大陸 Measure word 块

大陆 (Dà lù) means "mainland China (reference to the PRC); continent; mainland". It is an HSK 3.0 level 7-9 word, and was not on the old six-level HSK list.

What 大陆 means

1. continent; mainland

Other readings

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

• Dà lùmainland China (reference to the PRC)

The characters in 大陆

• 大dàbig; large; great; older (than another person); eldest (as in 大姐
• 陆lù(bound form) land (as opposed to the sea)

Example sentences

• 他从大陆回来了。
  He returned from China.
• 非洲是一块非常大的大陆。
  Fēizhōu shì yīkuài fēicháng dà de dàlù.
  Africa is a very large continent.
• 非洲曾经被称为黑暗大陆。
  Fēizhōu céngjīng bèi chēngwéi hēi'àn dàlù.
  Africa was once called the Dark Continent.
• 非洲是一个大陆, 而格陵兰不是。
  Fēizhōu shì yī gè dàlù, ér Gélínglán bù shì.
  Africa is a continent, but Greenland is not.
• 直到第二天早晨，我们才看到了大陆。
  Not until the following morning did we see land.
• 南极因为有大陆，所以气温低于北极。
  Owing to its landmass, the Antarctic has an air temperature lower than that of the Arctic.

Words containing 大陆

• 新大陆xīn dà lùthe New World; the Americas as opposed to the Old World 旧大陆

Sounds the same

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

• 大路avenue
• 大鹿moose

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