dào

Definitions

  1. 1. road
  2. 2. path
  3. 3. principle
  4. 4. truth
  5. 5. morality
  6. 6. reason
  7. 7. skill
  8. 8. method
  9. 9. Dao (of Daoism)
  10. 10. to say
  11. 11. to speak
  12. 12. to talk
  13. 13. 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
  14. 14. (old) administrative division (similar to province in Tang times)

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Example Sentences

我不知道今天会不会下雨。

Wǒ bù zhīdào jīntiān huì bu huì xiàyǔ.

I don't know if it will rain today.

你知道他今天为什么没来吗?

Nǐ zhīdào tā jīntiān wèishénme méi lái ma?

Do you know why he didn't come today?

我不知道去学校的路。

Wǒ bù zhīdào qù xuéxiào de lù.

I don't know the way to the school.