HSK 3.0 Level 3 · Nature, Animals

大熊猫 dàxióngmāo “giant panda” in Chinese

Traditional 大熊貓

What 大熊猫 means

  1. giant panda
  2. giant panda (Ailuropoda melanoleuca)

How to say 大熊猫

  • 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 second tone: rises from mid to high, 3 to 5 on the five-level scale熊xióng2nd tone, rising
  • Pitch chart of the first tone: stays high and level, 5 to 5 on the five-level scale猫māo1st tone, high and level

大熊猫 in a sentence

  1. 大熊猫是一种残存的古动物。

    Dàxióngmāo shì yì zhǒng cáncún de gǔ dòngwù.

    The giant panda is an ancient species that has survived to this day.

    Sentence #12568679 from Tatoeba · translation adapted

How 大熊猫 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 熊 (xióng) with each of its parts in a different colour
熊xióngbear
  • 能can · néng
  • 灬fire form of 火 · huǒ

Memory aid能 once meant “bear”. When it came to mean “can”, the fire dots 灬 were added below to write “bear”.

The character 猫 (māo) with each of its parts in a different colour
猫māocat 只)
  • 犭dog form of 犬 · quǎnMeaning part
  • 苗sprouts · miáoSound part

犭 hints at the meaning (dog); 苗 (miáo) hints at the sound. Compare it with māo.

Memory aidAnimal 犭 with 苗 (miáo) for the sound, close to a cat's “miaow”.

How to write 大熊猫

大 3 strokes · 熊 14 strokes · 猫 11 strokes

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

Words related to 大熊猫

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大夫dàifu · doctor大概dàgài · roughly大约dàyuē · approximately

Words with 熊

熊猫xióngmāo · panda

Words with 猫

猫māo · cat熊猫xióngmāo · panda

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FAQs

大熊猫 (dàxióngmāo) means “giant panda” or “giant panda (Ailuropoda melanoleuca)”. It is an HSK 3.0 Level 3 word.
Say it dàxióngmāo: dà with a 4th tone, then xióng with a 2nd tone, then māo with a 1st 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, 大熊猫 is written 大熊貓. The pronunciation is the same.
Add a Chinese (Simplified) pinyin keyboard to your phone or computer, type daxiongmao with no tone marks or spaces, then choose 大熊猫 from the suggestions. Typing daxiongmao into this dictionary’s search box finds it too.
大熊猫 is an HSK 3.0 Level 3 word in the official 2021 syllabus, and it is on our HSK 3.0 Band 5 word list. It is not on the older 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.