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导游

dǎo yóu

Old HSK 4 HSK 3.0 level 4 2-character word Traditional 導遊

导游 (dǎo yóu) means "tour guide". It is an HSK 3.0 level 4 word, and was HSK 4 in the old six-level list.

What 导游 means

1. tour guide
2. guidebook
3. to conduct a tour

The characters in 导游

• 导dǎoto transmit; to lead; to guide
• 游yóuto swim; variant of 游

Example sentences

• 不要怪导游。
  Don't blame the tour guide.
• 我为你充当导游。
  Wǒ wèi nǐ chōngdāng dǎoyóu.
  I'll act as a guide for you.
• 我在东京做导游。
  I'm a tour guide in Tokyo.
• 这本导游册子或许会对你的旅行有帮助。
  Zhè běn dǎoyóu cèzi huòxǔ huì duì nǐ de lǚxíng yǒubāngzhù.
  This guidebook might be of use to you on your trip.
• 他们和一个导游一起出发，只是为了以防迷路。
  Tāmen hé yī gè dǎoyóu yīqǐ chūfā, zhǐ shì wèile yǐfáng mílù.
  They set out with a guide just in case they lost their way.

Where 导游 is taught

In the GraphChinese course it is part of Travel logistics & transport (HSK 4), each one a topic in the dependency graph of HSK 1–6 that opens only once its prerequisites are solid.

Go deeper

• Every HSK 4 word, with the rest of its level.
• The four tones and the neutral tone, to read dǎo yóu correctly.
• Look up another word in the free dictionary.