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大啖一番

dà dàn yī fān · to have a square meal

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Simplified大啖一番

Traditional大啖一番

Pinyindà dàn yī fān

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Character breakdown

Study each Hanzi separately, then return to the complete word so pronunciation, meaning, and movement stay connected.

大dà

big; great

啖dàn

to feed; to eat; to chew, to bite; to entice

一yī

one; first

番fān

to take turns, to repeat; to sow; a turn

How to learn 大啖一番

Listen once without reading, repeat the pinyin with its tones, then write every character in sequence. Finally, recall the complete meaning instead of memorizing each character as an isolated translation.

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大dà

big; large; great; older (than another person); eldest (as in 大姐[da4 jie3]); greatly; freely; fully; (dialect) father; (dialect) uncle (father's brother)

大家dàjiā

everyone; influential family; great expert

大学dàxué

the Great Learning, one of the Four Books 四書|四书[Si4 shu1] in Confucianism; university; college; CL:所[suo3]

大学生dàxuéshēng

university student; college student

第一dì yī

first; number one; primary

一yī

one; single; a (article); as soon as; entire; whole; all; throughout; "one" radical in Chinese characters (Kangxi radical 1); also pr. [yao1] for greater clarity when spelling out numbers digit by digit