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放大

fàng dà

Old HSK 6 HSK 3.0 level 6 2-character word

放大 (fàng dà) means "to enlarge". It is an HSK 3.0 level 6 word, and was HSK 6 in the old six-level list.

What 放大 means

1. to enlarge
2. to magnify

The characters in 放大

• 放fàngto put; to place; to release
• 大dàbig; large; great; older (than another person); eldest (as in 大姐

Example sentences

• 观察放大了一万倍的细菌。
  Guānchá fàngdà le yī wàn bèi de xìjūn.
  Observe bacteria magnified ten thousand times.

Words starting with 放大

• 放大镜fàng dà jìngmagnifying glass
• 放大器fàng dà qìamplifier
• 放大片fàng dà piàn(Taiwan) cosmetic contact lens; big eye contact lens; circle contact lens
• 放大纸fàng dà zhǐenlarging paper (photography); bromide paper
• 放大倍数fàng dà bèi shùmagnifying power; magnification
• 放大炮fàng dà pàoto talk big; to shoot one's mouth off

Words containing 放大

• 模拟放大器mó nǐ fàng dà qìanalog amplifier
• 仪表放大器yí biǎo fàng dà qìinstrumentation amplifier

Where 放大 is taught

In the GraphChinese course it is part of HSK 6 Vocabulary · fàng–fēn (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.
• The four tones and the neutral tone, to read fàng dà correctly.
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