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達

dá

arrive at

Phonosemantic compound. 辶 represents the meaning and 羍 represents the sound.

Components
辶 meaning component

辶  Meaning component

chuò

  

walk

辶 is a component form of 辵.

羍 sound component

羍  Sound component

dá

  

little lamb

Evolution

達 Bronze script Late Western Zhou (~800 BC)

Bronze script

Late Western Zhou (~800 BC)
達 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
達 Clerical script Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)

Clerical script

Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)
達 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

达 (達) 

dá

arrive at, reach; intelligent; to attain; to reach; to amount to; to communicate; eminent

达 (達) 

Dá

surname Da

Most common words with 達
Freq.
Word
Meaning

达

to attain

达到

to reach

表达

to express

到达

to reach

达成

to accomplish

Component uses

Sound component in 4 characters (0 verified)

噠 韃 撻 躂

Historical pronunciation

Old Chinese

Middle Chinese

Pinyin

Gloss

*[l]ˤat

dat

dá

arrive at


Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

Appears in 64.9688% of movies

423rd most common character in movies

289th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

12

Simplified

达

Unicode

U+9054

Shuowen

“達，行不相遇也。从辵，羍聲。《詩》曰：‘挑兮達兮’。达，達或从大。或曰迭。”


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