大学 — stroke order
Learn how to write 大学 (dàxué), which means “university; college”. It is written with 2 characters and 11 strokes in total. In traditional Chinese it is written 大學. Each character below is animated in the correct Chinese stroke order inside a 米字格 practice grid — tap any character to replay it, or use “Play all strokes” to watch the whole word written in order.
Meaning in context
In everyday use, 大學 means university or college. It is also the title of the classical text The Great Learning; that is a separate sense, not the default meaning for this learner page. Compare dictionary senses (CC-CEDICT).
Character by character
| Character | Pinyin | 注音 | Meaning | Strokes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 大 | dà | ㄉㄚˋ | big, great, vast, high, deep | 3 |
| 学 | xué | ㄒㄩㄝˊ | learning, knowledge, science | 8 |