大家

dà jiā

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Meaning · English

Everyone; everybody in a group, usually including the people you are talking to. Used to address a whole room, as in 大家好, 'hello everyone'.

Nghĩa · Tiếng Việt

Mọi người, tất cả mọi người trong một nhóm, thường gồm cả những người đang nghe. Dùng để nói với cả tập thể, như 大家好 (chào mọi người).

Literally: big household

Register: neutral

Examples

大家好,很高兴认识你们。Dàjiā hǎo, hěn gāoxìng rènshi nǐmen.Hello everyone, it's nice to meet you all.

Editorial example (illustrative, not a corpus attestation) — awaiting a native-speaker check

Sources & notes

Hán-Việt bridge batch 061 (2026-11-13). Headword, Traditional form and pinyin checked against CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0) source ↗ · Hán-Việt reading: Unihan kVietnamese source ↗ ; en.wiktionary Vietnamese entries via kaikki.org extract, snapshot 2026-07-31 (CC BY-SA 4.0): etymology of “đại gia” = 大家 · Vietnamese false friend: Idiomer entry “đại gia” (dai-gia). Definition, literal gloss and example sentence are original; the example has not had a native-speaker check yet.

Equivalents & related

Common questions

What does “大家” mean?

Everyone; everybody in a group, usually including the people you are talking to. Used to address a whole room, as in 大家好, 'hello everyone'. Literally: big household

Is “大家” formal or informal?

大家 is generally neutral.

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