HSK 6 · Verbs

放大 fàngdà “to enlarge” in Chinese

Same in Traditional

What 放大 means

  1. to enlarge
  2. to magnify
  3. to amplify

How to say 放大

  • Pitch chart of the fourth tone: falls from high to low, 5 to 1 on the five-level scale放fàng4th tone, falling
  • Pitch chart of the fourth tone: falls from high to low, 5 to 1 on the five-level scale大dà4th tone, falling

放大 in a sentence

  1. 这台显微镜能把物体放大一百倍。

    Zhè tái xiǎnwēijìng néng bǎ wùtǐ fàngdà yì bǎi bèi.

    This microscope can magnify objects a hundred times.

    Sentence #1570034 from Tatoeba · converted to simplified characters · translation adapted

How 放大 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 放 (fàng) with each of its parts in a different colour
放fàngto put
  • 方square · fāngSound part
  • 攵tap form of 攴 · pūMeaning part

攵 hints at the meaning (tap); 方 (fāng) hints at the sound. Compare it with fàng.

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.

How to write 放大

放 8 strokes · 大 3 strokes

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

Words related to 放大

Words with 放

放fàng · put放心fàngxīn · relax放假fàngjià · to have a holiday放学fàngxué · to finish school (for the day)放松fàngsōng · to relax放弃fàngqì · to renounce放暑假fàngshǔjià · to be on summer holidays开放kāifàng · to open (to the public)播放bōfàng · to broadcast解放jiěfàng · to liberate

Words with 大

大dà · big大学dàxué · university大学生dàxuéshēng · university student大家dàjiā · everyone大人dàren · adult大衣dàyī · overcoat大小dàxiǎo · size大熊猫dàxióngmāo · giant panda大夫dàifu · doctor大概dàgài · roughly

More words: Common Verbs

堵塞dǔsè · to block恶化èhuà · to worsen遏制èzhì · to curb发动fādòng · to start访问fǎngwèn · to visit防止fángzhǐ · to prevent反抗fǎnkàng · to resist发扬fāyáng · to carry forward

FAQs

放大 (fàngdà) means “to enlarge” or “to magnify”. It is an HSK 6 word.
Say it fàngdà: fàng with a 4th tone, then dà with a 4th tone. Press Listen at the top of this page to hear it, or Slowly to hear each tone clearly.
Yes. 放大 is written the same way in Simplified and Traditional characters.
Add a Chinese (Simplified) pinyin keyboard to your phone or computer, type fangda with no tone marks or spaces, then choose 放大 from the suggestions. Typing fangda into this dictionary’s search box finds it too.
放大 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.