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懂

dǒng

Old HSK 2 HSK 3.0 character level 2 Character

懂 (dǒng) means "to understand". It is an HSK 3.0 level 2 word, and was HSK 2 in the old six-level list.

What 懂 means

1. to understand
2. to comprehend

How 懂 is used in grammar

懂 is a grammar word. Each link goes to its own section: what it does in that pattern, the structure, three example sentences with pinyin, and the mistake to avoid.

• Result Complements: 错/懂/好/完/清楚 (HSK 2)
• Resultative complements: 好/完/到/懂/坏 (HSK 4)

The official HSK 3.0 grammar outline lists it at level 2, complement (结果补语).

Example sentences

• 我懂。
  I understand.
• 不懂。
  Don't understand.
• 懂幺？
  Do you get it?
• 我不懂。
  I don't get it.
• 你不懂。
  You don't understand.
• 懂了吗？
  Do you follow?

Words starting with 懂

• 懂得dǒng deto understand; to know; to comprehend
• 懂事dǒng shìto grow beyond the naivete of childhood; to be aware of what is going on in the world…
• 懂行dǒng hángto know the ropes
• 懂哥dǒng gē(slang) Mr. Know-it-all
• 懂局dǒng júto be savvy
• 懂眼dǒng yǎn(colloquial) to know the ropes; an expert
• 懂门儿dǒng mén rone who knows his business; professional; expert

Words containing 懂

• 听懂tīng dǒngto understand (on hearing); to catch (what is spoken)
• 看懂kàn dǒngto understand what one is reading or watching
• 易懂yì dǒngeasy to understand
• 懵懂měng dǒngconfused; ignorant
• 难懂nán dǒngdifficult to understand
• 弄懂nòng dǒngto make sense of; to grasp the meaning of; to figure out
• 似懂非懂sì dǒng fēi dǒngto not really understand; to half-understand
• 懵懵懂懂měng měng dǒng dǒng(idiom) confused; ignorant; muddle-headed
• 读懂dú dǒngto read and understand
• 可懂度kě dǒng dùintelligibility
• 弄不懂nòng bu dǒngunable to make sense of (sth)
• 搞不懂gǎo bu dǒngunable to make sense of (sth)
• 看不懂kàn bu dǒngunable to make sense of what one is looking at
• 听不懂tīng bu dǒngunable to make sense of what one is hearing
• 听得懂tīng de dǒngto understand (by hearing); to catch (what sb says)
• 秒懂miǎo dǒngto understand instantly
• 不懂装懂bù dǒng zhuāng dǒngto pretend to understand when you don't
• 半懂不懂bàn dǒng bù dǒngto not fully understand; to only partly understand
• 自懂事以来zì dǒng shì yǐ láifor as long as one can remember
• 通俗易懂tōng sú yì dǒngeasy to understand
• 浅显易懂qiǎn xiǎn yì dǒng(idiom) easy to understand
• 聪明一世，懵懂一时cōng ming yī shì , měng dǒng yī shísee 聰明一世，聪明一世，糊涂一时

Characters that look like 懂

Easy to confuse on sight. Compare them side by side once and the pair stops costing you.

• 慢mànslow
• 穆mùsolemn; reverent; calm
• 憎zēngto detest
• 撸lū(dialect) to grasp (sth long or cylindrical) and slide the hand up or down…
• 憧chōngused in 憧憬; used in 憧憧
• 僮tóngservant boy

Sounds the same

Read dǒng, tone for tone, but written differently.

• 董to supervise; to direct; director

Where 懂 is taught

In the GraphChinese course it is part of Communication and Information (HSK 2), HSK 2 Characters · Set 20 (HSK 2), each one a topic in the dependency graph of HSK 1–6 that opens only once its prerequisites are solid.

Go deeper

• Every HSK 2 word, with the rest of its level.
• How characters are built from components.
• How to learn Chinese characters.
• The four tones and the neutral tone, to read dǒng correctly.
• Look up another word in the free dictionary.