大体 dàtǐ▶ general

Stroke order

大体 is written in 10 strokes across 2 characters.

• 大 — 3 strokes
• 体 — 7 strokes

Senses

1. in general; more or less; in rough terms; basically; on the whole
2. overall situation; the big picture
3. cadaver for dissection in training medical students

Related words

• 个体individual
• 体积volumen
• 体系sistema
• 体裁género
• 体谅entender; tener en cuenta
• 体面respetable

大体 is pronounced dàtǐ and means “general”. You will meet it in HSK 6, a band of the Hanyu Shuiping Kaoshi — the standard test of Chinese proficiency. Most learners can pick 大体 out of a list long before they can reach for it unprompted, and the gap between those two closes only with repeated recall. LexiTrail schedules the next sighting from how well you did on the last.