難道
nán​dào HSK3

[rhetorical question]

  • created reference approved 难道/難道 → 莫非 (synonym) — "Initial import from upstream dictionary"

    难道 / 難道 nán​dào

    莫非 mò​fēi

    synonym

    Changed: source (simp), source (trad), source pinyin, target (simp), target (trad), target pinyin, type

    created reference

  • created sense approved 难道/難道 · nán​dào · [rhetorical question] — "Initial import from upstream dictionary"

    难道 / 難道

    nán​dào

    [rhetorical question]

    Used in rhetorical questions to emphasize disbelief or surprise; often used in the patterns [[难道...吗|難道...嗎|nan2 dao4 ... ma5]] or [[难道...不成|難道...不成|nan2 dao4 ... bu4 cheng2]], meaning "could it be that..." or "is it possible that..."

    难 (literal) → 难/難 · nán · difficult 道 (literal) → 道 · dào · to say

    Changed: simplified, traditional, gloss, definition, pinyin, variant pinyin, variants, separable parts, decomposition

    created sense