导致 (dǎozhì) means To lead (causes). Below are 4 sentences on this site that use it — with pinyin, an English translation and audio. All of them were written by hand; none is machine generated.
Dictionary examples
粗心 导致 了这次事故。
Cūxīn dǎozhì le zhè cì shìgù.
Carelessness caused this accident.
Dictionary example · HSK 5 · 导致
熬夜会 导致 身体变差。
Áoyè huì dǎozhì shēntǐ biàn chà.
Staying up late leads to worse health.
Dictionary example · HSK 5 · 导致
内部意见不合 导致 团队分裂。
Nèibù yìjiàn bùhé dǎozhì tuánduì fēnliè.
Internal disagreement led the team to split.
Dictionary example · HSK 6 · 分裂
理解上的偏差 导致 了这次失误。
Lǐjiě shang de piānchā dǎozhì le zhè cì shīwù.
A deviation in understanding led to this mistake.
Dictionary example · HSK 6 · 偏差
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Questions about 导致
How is 导致 used in a sentence?
This page shows 4 sentences using 导致 (dǎozhì, "To lead (causes)"), each with pinyin, an English translation and audio. Every one of them was written by hand for this site.
Are these sentences machine generated?
No. They come from the site's own dictionary examples, graded readers, travel phrasebook and grammar library — all written by a person. A word with no sentence gets no page here, rather than a page of invented ones.
Is 导致 an HSK word?
Yes — 导致 is on the official HSK 5 vocabulary list, and you can study it with the rest of that list on the HSK 5 page.
Where can I see the full entry for 导致?
The dictionary page for 导致 has its stroke order, its traditional form, every sense the dictionary lists and a character-by-character breakdown. It is linked at the top of this page.
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