大雁
dàyàn
wild goose
Characters in this word
雁 yàn
- Strokes
- 12
- Radical
- 隹 — short-tailed bird
- Made of
- 厂 cliff 倠 ugly
- How it's built
- Phono-semantic — one part hints at the meaning, another at the sound
Example phrases
- 每到深秋，大雁沿着固定的路线南迁，仿佛天空也有记忆。 Měi dào shēnqiū, dàyàn yánzhe gùdìng de lùxiàn nánqiān, fǎngfú tiānkōng yě yǒu jìyì. Every late autumn, wild geese migrate south along fixed routes, as though even the sky had a memory.
- 一群大雁排成人字形，从头顶飞过。 Yì qún dàyàn pái chéng rénzìxíng, cóng tóudǐng fēi guò. A flock of wild geese flew overhead in a V formation.
- 大雁每年都会飞回同一个湖边过冬。 Dàyàn měi nián dōu huì fēi huí tóng yí ge húbiān guòdōng. Every year the wild geese fly back to the same lake to spend the winter.
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