庞大 pángdà huge
huge; enormous; tremendous
How to remember 庞大: 庞 disorderly + 大 big = huge.
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How it is used
- Huge / enormous - often unwieldy in scale: 庞大的机构 (pángdà de jīgòu) a vast bureaucracy, 数字庞大 (a staggering figure).
- Can carry a slightly negative nuance of being bloated or hard to manage.
- Compare 宏大 (hóngdà, grand/impressive); 庞大 stresses sheer, sometimes cumbersome, size.
Example sentences
- 观众人数庞大。 Guānzhòng rénshù pángdà.The audience was very large.