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难道 nándào

难道 nándào Meaning

Learn the Pinyin Pronunciation and 2 English Translations of the word 难道 nándào .

Pīnyīn Pronunciation
nándào | nan2 dao4
English translation
don't tell me ...
could it be that...?

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About 难道 nándào

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Traditional form

難道

Part of speech

Adverb / 副词 fù cí Fù cí
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Etymology of 难道 nándào

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nán

Type

ideographic

Explanation

Phonosemantic compound. zhuī represents the meaning and jǐn represents the sound. The character is based on the original meaning "type of bird", which is unrelated to the modern meaning. The simplified character nán was adapted from the cursive form of the trad

Positional decomposition

又隹

Number of Strokes

10
dào

Type

pictophonetic

Explanation

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

Phonetic compound

shǒu

Semantic compound

chuò

Positional decomposition

辶首

Number of Strokes

12

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Example sentences using 难道 nándào

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难道 nándào Néng Jiào zhè 孩子 háizi dǒng xiē 礼貌 lǐmào ?

Can't you drive some manners into the boy?

难道 nándào Huán 了解 liǎojiě 那个 nà ge ǎi rén de 倔强 juéjiàng ?

Have you learned nothing of the stubbornness of Dwarves?

难道 nándào 冬天 dōng tiān shí , de Shuāng jiǎo Lěng ?

Don't your feet get cold in the wintertime?

但是 dànshì 马上 mǎshàng xiǎng dào :“难道 nándào zhè 一点 yī diǎn dōu shòu le ? ”

Then he thought - is a little discomfort like this going to bother me?

这个 zhè ge bèn 脑瓜 nǎo guā 难道 nándào Huán 明白 míngbai 我们 wǒmen 买不 ?

Can't you get it into your thick skull that we can't afford it?

难道 nándào Decomposition

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难道 nándào Compounds

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