大象 (dàxiàng): elephant

Measure Word

一头大象 tóu

Meanings

1 elephant

Characters

Examples

大象是陆地上最大的动物。

Dàxiàng shì lùdì shàng zuì dà de dòngwù.

Elephants are the largest land animals.

孩子们在动物园里看大象。

Háizimen zài dòngwùyuán lǐ kàn dàxiàng.

The children are watching elephants at the zoo.

云南的野生大象迁徙了很远。

Yúnnán de yěshēng dàxiàng qiānxǐ le hěn yuǎn.

Yunnan's wild elephants migrated very far.

Tips

history

The character 象 originally was a pictograph of an elephant! It later also came to mean 'image/appearance' — hence 想象 (xiǎngxiàng, to imagine).

In Pop Culture

云南大象北迁 Yúnnán dàxiàng běiqiān

Yunnan elephant migration north

viral 2021 elephant herd migration, global news sensation

Stroke Order

大 dà

象 xiàng

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