HSK 6 · Adjectives

庞大 pángdà “huge” in Chinese

Traditional 龐大

What 庞大 means

  1. huge
  2. enormous
  3. massive
  4. tremendous

How to say 庞大

  • Pitch chart of the second tone: rises from mid to high, 3 to 5 on the five-level scale庞páng2nd tone, rising
  • Pitch chart of the fourth tone: falls from high to low, 5 to 1 on the five-level scale大dà4th tone, falling

庞大 in a sentence

  1. 他继承了他爸爸的庞大遗产。

    Tā jìchéng le tā bàba de pángdà yíchǎn.

    He inherited his father’s vast fortune.

    Sentence #2411938 from Tatoeba · translation adapted

  2. 观众人数庞大。

    Guānzhòng rénshù pángdà.

    The audience was huge.

    Sentence #332653 from Tatoeba · translation adapted

How 庞大 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 庞 (páng) with each of its parts in a different colour
庞pánghuge
  • 广shelter · guǎng
  • 龙dragon · lóng
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 庞大

庞 8 strokes · 大 3 strokes

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

Words related to 庞大

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: Adjectives

难能可贵nánnéngkěguì · rare and commendable拿手náshǒu · good at内在nèizài · inner浓厚nónghòu · strong贫乏pínfá · lacking频繁pínfán · frequent平凡píngfán · ordinary平坦píngtǎn · flat

FAQs

庞大 (pángdà) means “huge” or “enormous”. It is an HSK 6 word.
Say it pángdà: páng with a 2nd 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.
In Traditional characters, used in Taiwan and Hong Kong, 庞大 is written 龐大. The pronunciation is the same.
Add a Chinese (Simplified) pinyin keyboard to your phone or computer, type pangda with no tone marks or spaces, then choose 庞大 from the suggestions. Typing pangda into this dictionary’s search box finds it too.
庞大 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.