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達

简 达 · 繁 達
Mandarin · pinyin dá#

Meanings · dá

  1. to attain
  2. to reach
  3. to amount to
  4. to communicate
  5. eminent
Mandarin · pinyin Dá#

Meanings · Dá

  1. surname Da
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達
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达
dá · arrive at, reach; intelligent; smooth, slippery
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2 · da2

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Rime Cantonese 粵拼

daat6 · taat3

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Wiktionary English definitions · Chinese section

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character

  1. (literary, or in compounds) to lead to; to go to
  2. (literary, or in compounds) to reach; to arrive at
  3. to achieve; to attain
  4. (literary, or in compounds) to thoroughly understand; to understand
  5. (literary, or in compounds) to express; to convey
  6. (literary, or in compounds) current; general; common
  7. (literary, or in compounds) optimistic; philosophical
  8. (literary, or in compounds) illustrious; influential; intelligent
  9. (literary, or in compounds) everywhere; all over
  10. (literary, or in compounds) onomatopoeia for the collision of objects
  11. (Dungan) father
  12. 15th tetragram of the Taixuanjing; "reach" (𝌔)
  13. (～縣) Da County (modern-day Dachuan District in Dazhou, Sichuan)
  14. a surname

character

  1. (obsolete on its own in Standard Chinese) only used in 挑達／挑达 (tāotà, “coming and going freely; frivolous”)

character

  1. (obsolete on its own in Standard Chinese) slippery; smooth

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