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Chinese symbol for “hercules”

大力士
dà lì shì
strong man; Hercules

The closest CC-CEDICT match for hercules is 大力士 (dà lì shì), defined as: strong man; Hercules.

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Characters and stroke order

大 dà
big, great, vast, high, deep
radical 37 ⼤ · 3 strokes
力 lì
strength, power; capability, influence
radical 19 ⼒ · 2 strokes
士 shì
scholar, gentleman; soldier
radical 33 ⼠ · 3 strokes

Related words

Other words that share a character with 大力士.

WordPinyinMeaning
大学 (大學)dà xuéuniversity; college; measure word: 所 (suǒ)
大家dà jiāeveryone; influential family
大量dà liànggreat amount; large quantity
大陆 (大陸)dà lùcontinent; mainland; 块 (kuài)
大会 (大會)dà huìgeneral assembly; general meeting
重大zhòng dàgreat; important
能力néng lìcapability; ability
努力nǔ lìto make an effort; to try hard; to strive; hard-working; conscientious
人士rén shìperson; figure

See also: Japanese symbol for “hercules”.

Data: CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0); Unihan Database (Unicode License v3); Make Me a Hanzi (Arphic Public License (graphics.txt); LGPL-3.0-or-later (dictionary.txt)); wordfreq (CC BY-SA 4.0 (data)). Retrieved 2026-10-22.