大吃一惊
dàchīyìjīng
to be greatly surprised
Characters in this word
一 yī
- Strokes
- 1
- Radical
- 一 — one
- How it's built
- Ideograph — the meaning is built from its parts
惊 jīng
- Strokes
- 11
- Radical
- 忄 — heart
- Made of
- 忄 heart 京 capital city
- How it's built
- Phono-semantic — one part hints at the meaning, another at the sound
Example phrases
- 看到原本亏损的项目突然盈利，董事会成员都大吃一惊。 Kàndào yuánběn kuīsǔn de xiàngmù tūrán yínglì, dǒngshìhuì chéngyuán dōu dà chī yì jīng. Seeing the project that had originally been losing money suddenly become profitable, the board members were all greatly surprised.
- 听到他要辞职的消息，大家都大吃一惊。 Tīngdào tā yào cízhí de xiāoxi, dàjiā dōu dà chī yì jīng. Everyone was shocked to hear that he was going to resign.
- 我打开门，看到满屋子的气球，大吃一惊。 Wǒ dǎkāi mén, kàndào mǎn wūzi de qìqiú, dà chī yì jīng. I opened the door and was astonished to see the room full of balloons.
Related words
- 不大 búdà not very, not much
- 大 dà big, large; older
- 大学 dàxué university
- 大学生 dàxuéshēng university student
- 大部分 dàbùfen most; the greater part
- 大大 dàdà greatly; much more
- 大多数 dàduōshù the majority; most
- 大海 dàhǎi sea; ocean
- 大家 dàjiā everyone
- 大量 dàliàng a large amount of
- 大门 dàmén main entrance; gate
- 大人 dàren adult