HSK 6 · Family

大伙儿 dàhuǒr “everyone” in Chinese

Traditional 大伙兒

What 大伙儿 means

  1. everyone
  2. everybody

How to say 大伙儿

  • 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 third tone: dips low then rises, 2 to 1 to 4 on the five-level scale伙huǒ3rd tone, dipping
  • Pitch chart of the neutral tone: short and light, with no contour of its own儿rneutral tone, light and short

Grey pinyin is a neutral tone: say it short and light. More on the neutral tone

大伙儿 in a sentence

  1. 大伙儿玩得高兴吗?

    Dàhuǒr wán de gāoxìng ma?

    Are you all having a good time?

    Sentence #2014981 from Tatoeba · translation adapted

How 大伙儿 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 伙 (huǒ) with each of its parts in a different colour
伙huǒmeals
  • 亻person form of 人 · rénMeaning part
  • 火fire · huǒSound part

亻 hints at the meaning (person); 火 (huǒ) hints at the sound. Compare it with huǒ.

The character 儿 (ér) with each of its parts in a different colour
儿rnon-syllabic diminutive suffix
  • 丿slash · piě
  • 乚second (cyclical) form of 乙 · yǐ

Memory aidSimplified from 兒, a child drawn with a big head. Only the legs 儿 are left today.

How to write 大伙儿

大 3 strokes · 伙 6 strokes · 儿 2 strokes

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

Words related to 大伙儿

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FAQs

大伙儿 (dàhuǒr) means “everyone” or “everybody”. It is an HSK 6 word.
Say it dàhuǒr: dà with a 4th tone, then huǒ with a 3rd tone, then r with a neutral 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, 大伙儿 is written 大伙兒. The pronunciation is the same.
Add a Chinese (Simplified) pinyin keyboard to your phone or computer, type dahuor with no tone marks or spaces, then choose 大伙儿 from the suggestions. Typing dahuor into this dictionary’s search box finds it too.
大伙儿 is an HSK 6 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.