道
dàodǎodāo HSK1

path

道 dào frequency
principle verb
(bound form) way; reason; principle; truth; logic; morality
road noun
road; path; way
to say verbparticle
to say; to speak (often introducing a direct quote in literature)

我大喊道：“有人在家吗？”

wǒ dà hǎn dào:“ yǒu rén zài jiā ma?”

I shouted, “Is anyone home?”

to express verb
(bound form) to express or extend (gratitude, apologies, etc.)

向爷爷道晚安。

xiàng yé​ye dào wǎn'ān.

Say good night to Grandpa.

channel noun
channel; conduit; passage (e.g. for water, air, or biological fluids)
[classifier] measure word
used for long thin things, barriers, questions, orders, courses of a meal, or steps in a process

下道菜是什么？

xià dào cài shì shén​me?

What's the next dish?

你可以从那道门逃走。

nǐ kě​yǐ cóng nà dào mén táo zǒu.

You can escape through that door.

skill noun
(bound form) a skill; an art; a specialization; a doctrine
circuit proper nounnoun
(historical) circuit, an administrative division in various dynasties
Daoism
(bound form) the Way or the Dao; Daoism; Daoist
to think
to think; to suppose; to reckon
line
a line; a streak; a narrow mark
surname
a Chinese surname
道 dǎo
to guide
(bound form) to guide; to lead; to conduct; to direct; to instruct
道 dāo
nagging
(bound form) used in 神神叨叨 shén​shen​dāo​dāo (muttering; nagging)

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Frequency
Character
Written text
52nd most common 2763.2 per million
Movie subtitles
32nd most common 4921.6 per million appears in 100% of films
Word
Movie subtitles
112.0 per million appears in 33% of films
Written text
731.7 per million

Details
HSK 2.0
Level 2
HSK 3.0
Level 1
Strokes
12
Unicode
U+9053

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