耷 dā ears hanging down Definitions Defs Origin Strokes Stroke Words Sentences Sents Phonosemantic compound. 耳 represents the meaning and 大 represents the sound. Components 耳 耳 Meaning component ěr ear 大 大 Sound component dà, dài big Historical Pronunciations Old ChineseZhengzhangtaːb Sources Readings & variants Unicode Historical pronunciations Zhengzhang Shangfang