打交道 dǎjiāodào in a sentence
To come into contact with; to have dealings†
打交道 (dǎjiāodào) means To come into contact with, to have dealings †. Below are 3 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
和他 打交道 要多一点耐心。
Hé tā dǎ jiāodao yào duō yìdiǎn nàixīn.
Dealing with him takes a little more patience.
Dictionary example · HSK 5 · 打交道
他的工作要和很多人 打交道 。
Tā de gōngzuò yào hé hěn duō rén dǎ jiāodao.
His job means dealing with a lot of people.
Dictionary example · HSK 5 · 打交道
他善于和人 打交道 。
Tā shànyú hé rén dǎ jiāodao.
He is good at dealing with people.
Dictionary example · HSK 5 · 善于
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How is 打交道 used in a sentence?
This page shows 3 sentences using 打交道 (dǎjiāodào, "To come into contact with, to have dealings †"), 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 打交道 an HSK word?
Yes — 打交道 is on the official HSK 5 vocabulary list, and you can study it with the rest of that list on the HSK 5 page.
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