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放大

fàngdà

to enlarge

A person using a magnifying glass
Memory picture

Characters in this word

放 fàng

Strokes
8
Radical
攵 — to rap, to tap
Made of
方 square, rectangle 攵 to rap, to tap
How it's built
Phono-semantic — one part hints at the meaning, another at the sound

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

Example phrases

  • 请放大图片。 Qǐng fàng dà tú piàn. Please enlarge the picture.
  • 把字放大。 Bǎ zì fàng dà. Make the words bigger.
  • 放大一点儿。 Fàng dà yì diǎnr. Make it a little bigger.

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