达

dá

to attain

surname Da; to reach; to amount to; to communicate; eminent

movement (辶) + [sound] (大) = reach and attain

The movement radical 辶 carries the core idea: traveling along a path until you arrive. 大 mainly contributes the sound dá and does not add meaning here.

辶+大→达
大BigPhonetic
辶WalkingSemantic

她的成绩达到了全班最高水平。

tā de chéngjì dá dào le quán bān zuì gāo shuǐpíng。

Her grades reached the highest level in the whole class.

这次活动的参与人数达到了五百人。

zhè cì huódòng de cānyù rénshù dá dào le wǔbǎi rén。

The number of participants in this event amounted to five hundred people.

Words with 达

达菲

dá fēi

(loanword) Tamiflu

达累斯萨拉姆

dá lèi sī sà lā mǔ

Dar es Salaam (former capital of Tanzania)

飞黄腾达

fēi huáng téng dá

lit. the divine steed Feihuang gallops (idiom)

通宵达旦

tōng xiāo dá dàn

overnight until daybreak (idiom); all night long

雅加达

yǎ jiā dá

Jakarta, capital of Indonesia

高达

gāo dá

to attain; to reach up to

塞尔达

sài ěr dá

Zelda (in Legend of Zelda video game)

达尔文

dá ěr wén

Charles Darwin (1809–1882), British biologist, author of "On the Origin of Species" 物種起源|物种起源[Wu4 zhong3 Qi3 yuan2]

萨尔达

sà ěr dá

Zelda (in Legend of Zelda video game) (Tw, HK, Macau)

达喀尔

dá kā ěr

Dakar, capital of Senegal

卢安达

lú ān dá

Rwanda (Tw)

品达

pǐn dá

Pindar, Greek poet

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