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大约dàyuēabout; approximately

Theme
Adverbs
Level
HSK 4
Strokes
9
Characters
2

How 大约 is written

Stroke order matters: it sets the proportions of the character and how a reader will parse it. In the trainer these same boxes reject a stroke drawn out of turn.

大 — 3 strokes, in writing order from left to right.
约 — 6 strokes, in writing order from left to right.

Build a practice sheet with 大约

Examples

从这儿到学校大约半个小时。

Cóng zhèr dào xuéxiào dàyuē bàn gè xiǎoshí.

It is about half an hour from here to the school.

  • 从cóngfrom
  • 这儿zhèrhere
  • 到dàoto arrive; until
  • 学校xuéxiàoschool
  • 大约dàyuēabout; approximately
  • 半bànhalf
  • 个gègeneral measure word
  • 小时xiǎoshíhour

来了大约五十个人。

Lái le dàyuē wǔ shí gè rén.

About fifty people came.

  • 来láito come
  • 了lecompleted action marker
  • 大约dàyuēabout; approximately
  • 五wǔfive
  • 十shíten
  • 个gègeneral measure word
  • 人rénperson

Not to be confused with

Characters that look or sound alike. The trainer mixes them into the answer options for exactly that reason — so the difference sticks.

  • 大概
  • 约会
  • 大多