难道

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