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dào

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dào Meaning

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Pīnyīn Pronunciation
dào | dao4
English translation
direction
way
road
path
CL: tiáo
> tiáo [tiáo],[gǔ]
principle
truth
morality
reason
skill
method
Dao (of Daoism)
to say
to speak
to talk
classifier for long thin things (rivers, cracks etc), barriers (walls, doors etc), questions (in an exam etc), commands, courses in a meal, steps in a process
province (of Korea or Japan)
method, way; path, road

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About dào

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Number of strokes

12

Traditional form

dào

Contains the radical

chuò

Part of speech

Isolated measure word / 量词 liàng cí Liàngcí

Learning hint

walk

Etymology of dào

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Type

pictophonetic

Positional decomposition

辶首

Semantic compound

chuò

Phonetic compound

shǒu

Explanation

Phonosemantic compound. chuò represents the meaning and shǒu represents the sound.

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Example sentences using dào

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知道 zhīdào zhè cháng 篮球 lán qiú sài shuí huì 上场 shàng chǎng .

I don't know (wonder) who will play in the basketball match.

老师 lǎoshī de 学生 xuésheng men dōu Xiè chū 那道.

Neither the teacher nor his students know how to work out the problem.

如果 rúguǒ zài 五秒之内 zhī nèi shuì xiē 什么 shénme , jiù huì 知道 zhīdào zhè jiàn 夹克 jiā kè 超过 chāoguò 1000.

If you don't say anything in five seconds, I'll know it was over

这道虽然 suīrán 错综复杂 cuò zōng fù zá , dàn yòng 电子计算机 diàn zǐ jì suàn jī 很快 jiù Néng Xiè chū .

Although the problem is intricate and complex, it can be solved very quickly with an electronic computer.

zhè dào kān 起来 qǐlai hěn 简单 jiǎndān , dàn dāng yāo Xiè shí jiù huì 发现 fāxiàn 确实 quèshí shì dào 难题 nán tí ...

The problem looks simple enough, but when you come to try and solve it you'll find it's a real teaser.

Words with dào

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FrequencySimplifiedMeaningTraditional
知道 zhīdào to know知道 zhīdào
dào road dào
报道 bàodào report報道
难道 nándào don't tell me ...難道
说道 shuō dào to state說道
道路 dào lù road道路 dào lù
味道 wèidao flavor味道 wèidao
道德 dàodé virtue道德 dàodé
道歉 dàoqiàn to apologize道歉 dàoqiàn
渠道 qúdào means渠道 qúdào
道理 dàoli reason道理 dàoli
一道 yī dào together一道 yī dào
频道 píndào frequency頻道
通道 Tōng dào passage通道 Tōng dào
街道 jiēdào street街道 jiēdào
轨道 guǐdào orbit軌道
大道 dà dào avenue大道 dà dào
管道 guǎn dào tubing管道 guǎn dào
地道 dìdào authentic地道 dìdào
隧道 suìdào tunnel隧道 suìdào
道具 dào jù prop (theater)道具 dào jù
阴道 yīn dào vagina陰道
打交道 dǎjiāodào to have dealings打交道 dǎjiāodào
有道理 yǒu dào li to make sense有道理 yǒu dào li
国道 guó dào national highway國道

dào Decomposition & Compounds

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dào Decomposition

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dào Compounds

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