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大有

Mandarin · pinyin dà yǒu

there is a great deal of ... (typically followed by a bisyllabic word, as in 大有希望 dà yǒu xī wàng)
(literary) bumper harvest; abundance

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大: dà · big, great, vast, large, high
有: yǒu · have, own, possess; exist

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4–3 · da4 you3

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verb

to have much; to be considerable; to be abundant; to be plentiful

noun

the fourteenth hexagram of the I Ching, known as great possessing

name

(～鎮) Dayou (a town in Xiangshui, Yancheng, Jiangsu, China)

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