HSK 5 · Places

大厦 dàshà “large building” in Chinese

Traditional 大廈

What 大厦 means

  1. large building
  2. tower
  3. (used in the names of grand buildings such as 百老汇大厦 Broadway Mansions (in Shanghai) or 帝国大厦 Empire State Building etc)

How to say 大厦

  • Pitch chart of the fourth tone: falls from high to low, 5 to 1 on the five-level scale大dà4th tone, falling
  • Pitch chart of the fourth tone: falls from high to low, 5 to 1 on the five-level scale厦shà4th tone, falling

大厦 in a sentence

  1. 那座大厦天台的景色很美的，想去看看吗？

    Nà zuò dàshà tiāntái de jǐngsè hěn měi de, xiǎng qù kànkan ma?

    The view from the roof of that building is beautiful. Want to go and see?

    Sentence #400418 from Tatoeba · converted to simplified characters · translation adapted

  2. 你看，那边正在冒烟，那栋大厦一定是失火了。

    Nǐ kàn, nàbian zhèngzài màoyān, nà dòng dàshà yídìng shì shīhuǒ le.

    Look, there’s smoke over there. That building must be on fire.

    Sentence #488402 from Tatoeba · converted to simplified characters · translation adapted

  3. 摩天大厦里的电梯是至关重要的。

    Mótiān dàshà lǐ de diàntī shì zhìguānzhòngyào de.

    Lifts are essential in a skyscraper.

    Sentence #718422 from Tatoeba · translation adapted

How 大厦 is built

Each colour is one part of the character. Parts repeat across thousands of characters, so learning them makes new words easier. See all 214 in our radicals chart.

The character 大 (dà) with each of its parts in a different colour
大dàbig; large; great
  • 一one · yī
  • 人person · rén

Memory aidA person standing with arms stretched wide: big.

The character 厦 (shà) with each of its parts in a different colour
厦shàtall building; mansion
  • 厂cliff · hǎnMeaning part
  • 夏summer · xiàSound part

厂 hints at the meaning (cliff); 夏 (xià) hints at the sound. Compare it with shà.

How to write 大厦

大 3 strokes · 厦 12 strokes

Watch the order, then press Try writing it and draw each stroke in the grid. Each stroke is checked as you go.

大厦 (dàshà) stroke order chart: each stroke of the characters in the order you write them
Stroke order chart for 大厦 (dàshà). Red marks the next stroke, so you can copy it onto paper one step at a time.

Words related to 大厦

Words with 大

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FAQs

大厦 (dàshà) means “large building” or “tower”. It is an HSK 5 word.
Say it dàshà: dà with a 4th tone, then shà with a 4th tone. Press Listen at the top of this page to hear it, or Slowly to hear each tone clearly.
In Traditional characters, used in Taiwan and Hong Kong, 大厦 is written 大廈. The pronunciation is the same.
Add a Chinese (Simplified) pinyin keyboard to your phone or computer, type dasha with no tone marks or spaces, then choose 大厦 from the suggestions. Typing dasha into this dictionary’s search box finds it too.
大厦 is an HSK 5 word in the HSK 2.0 word lists.

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Sources: meaning and pinyin checked by a native Mandarin teacher against the official HSK lists. Extra meanings from CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0). Example sentences from Tatoeba (CC BY 2.0 FR). Character parts and stroke order from Make Me a Hanzi.