大勇 (dà yǒng) — great courage; courageous person/people

Definition

A formal, literary noun meaning 'great courage' or 'a person of great courage' — used in writing, proverbs, and classical-style phrasing rather than everyday speech.

noun
great couragecourageous person/people

Examples

  • 大勇,。
    Tā shì yí wèi dà yǒng zhī rén, miàn duì wēi xiǎn cóng bú tuì suō.
    He is a person of great courage, never backing down from danger.
  • 大勇,。
    dà yǒng Bìng fēi méi yǒu kǒng jù, ér shì kè fú kǒng jù.
    Great courage is not without fear, but overcoming fear.
  • 大勇,。
    Lì shǐ shàng yǒu xǔ duō dà yǒng zhě, tā men gǎi biàn le shì jiè.
    There were many people of great courage in history who changed the world.

Origin

Compound word
构词法gòucífǎ
偏正piānzhèngModifier + head

The first part narrows down the second: it says what kind of thing the head is.

大dàgreat
勇yǒngcourage

大 means great and 勇 means courage, so great courage.

Characters in this word

A drawing of the thing itself, worn down over three thousand years into a few strokes.

The form 大 is a picture of a person standing and facing forward, not of someone stretching their arms.

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Most characters — around four in five — are built this way: one part hints at the meaning, the other at the pronunciation.

Meaning part形符xíngfú
力力lìstrong
Sound part声符shēngfú
甬
甬yǒng勇yǒng
Same sound today

勇 pairs 甬, which gives the sound, with 力, a strength part, to mean brave and strong.

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