道 (dào) means Road (direction - mw for orders and lines). Below are 24 of the 158 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
这 道 题相当难。
Zhè dào tí xiāngdāng nán.
This question is quite difficult.
Dictionary example · HSK 5 · 相当
他向朋友 道 歉了。
Tā xiàng péngyou dàoqiàn le.
He apologised to his friend.
Dictionary example · HSK 4 · 道歉
你说的很有 道 理。
Nǐ shuō de hěn yǒu dàolǐ.
What you say makes a lot of sense.
Dictionary example · HSK 5 · 道理
这 道 菜要放酱油。
Zhè dào cài yào fàng jiàngyóu.
This dish needs soy sauce.
Dictionary example · HSK 5 · 酱油
这 道 菜很有营养。
Zhè dào cài hěn yǒu yíngyǎng.
This dish is very nutritious.
Dictionary example · HSK 5 · 营养
他只想讨个公 道 。
Tā zhǐ xiǎng tǎo ge gōngdao.
All he wants is a fair deal.
Dictionary example · HSK 6 · 公道
报 道 歪曲了事实。
Bàodào wāiqū le shìshí.
The report misrepresented the facts.
Dictionary example · HSK 6 · 歪曲
这件事情你知 道 吗？
Zhè jiàn shìqing nǐ zhīdào ma?
Do you know about this matter?
Dictionary example · HSK 2 · 事情
你知 道 他的电话吗？
Nǐ zhīdào tā de diànhuà ma?
Do you know his phone number?
Dictionary example · HSK 2 · 知道
我大概知 道 这件事。
Wǒ dàgài zhīdào zhè jiàn shì.
I know roughly about this matter.
Dictionary example · HSK 4 · 大概
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From the graded readers
我知 道 我生病了。
wǒ zhīdào wǒ shēngbìng le / liǎo / liào.
I knew I was ill.
Graded reader · HSK 2 · Going to the Doctor
明天天气会好吗？我不知 道 。
míngtiān tiānqì huì hǎo / hào mǎ? wǒ bùzhī dào.
Will the weather be good tomorrow? I don't know.
Graded reader · HSK 1 · The Weather Today
我知 道 他是为我好，可是我还是辞职了。
wǒ zhīdào tā shì wèi / wéi wǒ hǎo / hào, kěshì wǒ háishì cízhí le / liǎo / liào.
I knew he meant well, but I resigned anyway.
Graded reader · HSK 4 · Changing Jobs
我们站在那里，忽然都不知 道 说什么好。
wǒmen zhàn zài nàli, hūrán dōu bùzhī dào shuō shénme hǎo / hào.
We stood there and suddenly neither of us knew what to say.
Graded reader · HSK 4 · Saying Goodbye
那天晚上，我给她发了一条很长的消息，向她 道 歉。
nà / nèi tiān wǎnshang, wǒ gěi tā fā le / liǎo / liào yī tiáo hěn cháng / zhǎng de / dì xiāoxi, xiàng tā dàoqiàn.
That night I sent her a long message apologising.
Graded reader · HSK 4 · A Misunderstanding
我这才知 道 ，真正尊重你的人，不会因为一次拒绝就离开。
wǒ zhè / zhèi cái zhīdào, zhēnzhèng zūnzhòng nǐ de rén, bùhuì yīnwèi yīcì jùjué jiù líkāi.
That was when I learned that people who genuinely respect you don't leave over one refusal.
Graded reader · HSK 4 · Learning to Say No
重要的是我知 道 了：紧张不可怕，可怕的是因为紧张就不上台。
zhòngyào de / dì shì wǒ zhīdào le / liǎo / liào: jǐnzhāng bùkě pà, kěpà de / dì shì yīnwèi jǐnzhāng jiù bù shàngtái.
What mattered was learning that nerves aren't the problem — not going on stage because of them is.
Graded reader · HSK 4 · My First Speech
道 appears in 158 sentences on this site; the 24 shortest and most direct are shown. The rest are on the pages they were written for — the graded readers, the phrasebook and the grammar library.
Words that contain 道
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Questions about 道
How is 道 used in a sentence?
This page shows 158 sentences using 道 (dào, "Road (direction - mw for orders and lines)"), 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.
Why do some sentences show 道 inside a longer word?
Because that is where a single character usually lives. Seeing 道 inside the words it builds is how the character stops being an isolated symbol and starts being something you can read.
Where can I see the full entry for 道?
The dictionary page for 道 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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