Elephant in Chinese (Mandarin): 大象 (dàxiàng)
大象
dàxiàng
elephant
- Simplified
- 大象
- Traditional
- 大象
- Pinyin
- dàxiàng
- Typed as
- daxiang
Use it in a sentence
大象有长长的鼻子。
大象有長長的鼻子。
The elephant has a long nose.
The characters in 大象
大
Big. A person with arms stretched wide.
3 strokes
象
Elephant. It began as a drawing of an elephant with its trunk.
11 strokes
An elephant's trunk is 鼻子 (bízi), the same word as nose.
More examples with 大象
大象很重。
Dàxiàng hěn zhòng.
The elephant is very heavy.
大象用鼻子喝水。
Dàxiàng yòng bízi hē shuǐ.
The elephant drinks with its trunk.
How to write 大象 in Chinese
Each box adds one stroke, in red. Write them in this order.
大 3 strokes
象 11 strokes
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