大厦 (大廈)
dà shà
Pinyin

Definition

大厦 (大廈)
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dà shà
  1. (used in the names of grand buildings such as 百老匯大廈|百老汇大厦 Broadway Mansions (in Shanghai) or 帝國大廈|帝国大厦 Empire State Building etc)

Character Decomposition

Related Words (20)

大
dà
  1. 1 big
  2. 2 huge
  3. 3 large
  4. 4 major
  5. 5 great
  6. 6 wide
  7. 7 deep
  8. 8 older (than)
  9. 9 oldest
  10. 10 eldest
  11. 11 greatly
  12. 12 very much
  13. 13 (dialect) father
  14. 14 father's elder or younger brother
大吉
dà jí
  1. 1 very auspicious
  2. 2 extremely lucky
大家
dà jiā
  1. 1 everyone
  2. 2 influential family
  3. 3 great expert
大奖
dà jiǎng
  1. 1 prize
  2. 2 award
大话骰
dà huà tóu
  1. 1 liar's dice (dice game)

Idioms (20)

不识大体
bù shí dà tǐ
  1. 1 to fail to see the larger issue (idiom)
  2. 2 to fail to grasp the big picture
久仰大名
jiǔ yǎng dà míng
  1. 1 I have been looking forward to meeting you for a long time (idiom)
以小挤大
yǐ xiǎo jǐ dà
  1. 1 minor projects eclipse major ones (idiom)
元恶大憝
yuán è dà duì
  1. 1 arch-criminal and archenemy (idiom)
冒大不韪
mào dà bù wěi
  1. 1 to face opprobrium (idiom)

Sample Sentences

哇，到处都是高楼大厦！老公，快快快，我要跟东方明珠合个影。
wā ，dàochù dōu shì gāolóudàshà ！lǎogōng ，kuàikuàikuài ，wǒ yào gēn Dōngfāngmíngzhū hé ge yǐng 。
Wow, there're skyscrapers and big buildings everywhere! Honey, hurry up. I want to take a picture with the Oriental Pearl Tower.
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宝塔是金茂大厦，旁边那个开瓶器才是环球金融中心。
bǎotǎ shì Jīnmàodàshà ，pángbiān nà ge kāipíngqì cái shì Huánqiú jīnróng zhōngxīn 。
The pagoda one is the Jinmao Tower. The bottle opener one next to that is the Shanghai World Financial Center.
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金茂大厦还是算了吧。虽说金茂大厦号称世界第三高楼，可是毕竟国外高楼林立，到处是摩天大楼，不稀奇。东方明珠电视塔倒是可以带他去看看。这11个大小不一、高低错落的球体，从天空串落到草地上，还是很有特色的。
Jīnmàodàshà hái shì suànle ba 。suīshuō Jīnmàodàshà hàochēng shìjiè dì sān gāolóu ，kěshì bìjìng guówài gāolóu línlì ，dàochù shì mótiāndàlóu ，bù xīqí 。Dōngfāngmíngzhū diànshìtǎ dàoshì kěyǐ dài tā qù kànkan 。zhè shíyī ge dàxiǎo bùyī 、gāodī cuòluò de qiútǐ ，cóng tiānkōng chuànluò dào cǎodì shang ，háishì hěnyǒu tèsè de 。
Forget about the Jinmao Tower. Although the Jinmao Tower claims to be the third highest building in the world, there are a ton of skyscrapers in other countries, after all. Everywhere you go are skyscrapers. They're not rare at all. On the other hand, I could take him to see the Oriental Pearl TV Tower. It has eleven balls of different sizes. Their heights are staggered in a row leading from the heavens down to the Earth. It's really distinctive.
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那还不简单。去东方明珠和金茂大厦啊，这两个可是上海的标志性建筑。
nà hái bùjiǎndān 。qù Dōngfāngmíngzhū hé Jīnmàodàshà a ，zhè liǎng ge kěshì Shànghǎi de biāozhìxìng jiànzhù 。
It's not easy to say. Go to the Oriental Pearl Tower and the Jinmao Tower-- those two buildings are symbolic of Shanghai.
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我记得以前这里是田地。现在都是高楼大厦了。
wǒ jìde yǐqián zhèlǐ shì tiándì 。xiànzài dōu shì gāolóudàshà le 。
I remember this here used to be fields. Now it's all tall buildings.
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