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大象

dàxiàng

elephant

An elephant with its trunk down
Memory picture

Characters in this word

大 dà

Strokes
3
Radical
大 — big, great, vast, high, deep
Made of
一 one 人 man, person
How it's built
Ideograph — the meaning is built from its parts

象 xiàng

Strokes
11
Radical
豕 — pig, boar
Made of
⺈ knife 口 mouth 豕 pig, boar
How it's built
Phono-semantic — one part hints at the meaning, another at the sound
More about the character 象

Example phrases

  • 大象很可爱。 Dàxiàng hěn kěài. The elephant is very cute.
  • 我看见大象。 Wǒ kànjiàn dàxiàng. I see an elephant.
  • 大象在喝水。 Dàxiàng zài hē shuǐ. The elephant is drinking water.

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