到
dào HSK1

go to

到 dào
[resultative] particle
used after a verb to indicate completion or success of an action

我老到可以当你妈了。

wǒ lǎo dào kě​yǐ dāng nǐ mā le.

I'm old enough to be your mother.

你醉到走不动了吗？

nǐ zuì dào zǒu bu dòng le ma?

Are you too drunk to walk?

to arrive verbpreposition
to arrive at a place; to reach a point in time; to reach a certain level or stage

我又是最晚到的吗？

wǒ yòu shì zuì wǎn dào de ma?

Am I the last one to arrive again?

他通常是第一个到的。

tā tōng​cháng shì dì​yī ge dào de.

He is usually the first one to arrive.

to preposition
used as a preposition meaning "to", "until", or "up to"

我们玩到你赢为止吧。

wǒ​men wán dào nǐ yíng wéi​zhǐ ba.

Let's play till you win.

她在那里上学到14岁。

tā zài nà​li shàng xué dào14 suì.

She attended school there until age 14.

to go to prepositionverb
to go to a place; to leave for a destination

我实在不该到这里来。

wǒ shí​zài bù gāi dào zhè​lǐ lái.

I really shouldn't have come here.

孩子们，到外面去玩。

hái​zi men, dào wài​miàn qù wán.

Children, go and play outside.

thoughtful adjective
considerate or thorough; paying attention to all details
surname Dao
a Chinese surname

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Frequency
Character
Written text
22nd most common 4987.2 per million
Movie subtitles
24th most common 6196.1 per million appears in 100% of films
Word
Movie subtitles
4159.4 per million appears in 100% of films
Written text
2689.9 per million

Details
HSK 2.0
Level 2
HSK 3.0
Level 1
Strokes
8
Unicode
U+5230

Sources
Frequency data
MTSU Chinese text computingSUBTLEX-CHBCC Corpus (BLCU)