难道
nán dào 2–4
don't tell me ...; could it be that...?
- Characters
- 2
- 难 · 道
- Syllables
- 2
- nán dào
- Frequency
- Common
- corpus count 1,147
Part of speech: d
Character by character
- 难nán10 strokesHSK 1 traditional 難difficult, arduous, hard; unable
- 道dào13 strokesHSK 1path, road, street; method, way
Each character links to its stroke order page with a tracing and a writing exercise.
Words with the same characters
These words share at least one character with 难道. Reading them together is how the character starts to stick — the same characters in a different context.
- 知道zhī dàoHSK 1
to know; to become aware of; also pr. [zhī dao]
- 道dàoHSK 2
road; path; 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; (old) circuit (administrative division)
- 难nánHSK 1
difficult (to...); problem; difficulty; difficult; not good
- 报道bào dàoHSK 3
to report (news); report
- 困难kùn nanHSK 3
difficult; challenging; straitened circumstances; difficult situation
- 味道wèi daoHSK 2
flavor; taste; (fig.) feeling (of ...); sense (of ...); hint (of ...); (fig.) interest; delight; (dialect) smell; odor
- 难以nán yǐHSK 5
hard to (predict, imagine etc)
- 道路dào lùHSK 2
road; path; way
- 道德dào déHSK 5
virtue; morality; ethics
- 道理dào liHSK 2
reason; argument; sense; principle; basis; justification
- 难过nán guòHSK 2
to feel sad; to feel unwell; (of life) to be difficult
- 频道pín dàoHSK 5
frequency; (television) channel
- 道歉dào qiànHSK 6
to apologize
- 通道tōng dàoHSK 6
(communications) channel; thoroughfare; passage
- 艰难jiān nánHSK 5
difficult; hard; challenging
- 街道jiē dàoHSK 4
street; subdistrict; residential district
- 难受nán shòuHSK 2
to feel unwell; to suffer pain; to be difficult to bear
- 大道dà dàoHSK 6
main street; avenue
- 难度nán dùHSK 3
degree of difficulty
- 轨道guǐ dàoHSK 6
track (for trains etc); orbit (of a satellite); (fig.) a person's established path in life; desired trajectory (of a business or other endeavor); (audio engineering) track; (quantum mechanics) orbital
- 灾难zāi nànHSK 5
disaster; catastrophe
- 管道guǎn dàoHSK 6
tubing; pipeline; (fig.) channel; means
- 难得nán déHSK 5
seldom; rare; hard to come by
- 隧道suì dàoHSK 7
tunnel