大都
dà​dōudà​dū HSK5

mostly

大都 dà​dōu frequency
mostly adverb
for the most part; on the whole; generally

彗星大都由冰构成。

huì​xīng dà​dōu yóu bīng gòu​chéng.

Comets are mostly composed of ice.

大都 dà​dū
metropolis
a large city; a major metropolitan center
Dadu
capital of China during the Yuan Dynasty, located in modern-day Beijing
fiefdom
in ancient China, a large city or a fief granted to the sons or brothers of a monarch outside the royal domain

Frequency
Movie subtitles
1.37 per million appears in 1% of films
Written text
18.2 per million

Details
HSK 3.0
Level 5

Cross-References

Same as

Sources
Frequency data
SUBTLEX-CHBCC Corpus (BLCU)