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大概

dà gài 4–4

roughly; probably; rough; approximate; about; general idea

HSK level
HSK 3
HSK 2.0 level 4 · HSK 3.0 level 3
Characters
2
大 · 概
Syllables
2
dà gài
Frequency
Common
corpus count 1,611

Part of speech: d,n

Character by character

  • 大dà3 strokesHSK 1big, great, vast, large, high
  • 概gài13 strokesHSK 3generally, approximately

Each character links to its stroke order page with a tracing and a writing exercise.

Example sentences

  • 我大概懂了。

    Wǒ dà gài dǒng le

    I sort of understand.

  • 她大概不会来了。

    Tā dà gài bù huì lái le

    It isn't likely that she will come.

  • 我大概五点到这里。

    Wǒ dà gài wǔ diǎn dào zhè lǐ

    I arrived here about five o'clock.

  • 这大概正是我要做的。

    Zhè dà gài zhèng shì wǒ yào zuò de

    Maybe that's what I'll do.

Example sentences from Tatoeba (CC BY 2.0 FR), contributed by their community.

Words with the same characters

These words share at least one character with 大概. Reading them together is how the character starts to stick — the same characters in a different context.

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