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打交道

dǎ jiāo dào

Old HSK 5 HSK 3.0 level 6 3-character word

打交道 (dǎ jiāo dào) means "to come into contact with". It is an HSK 3.0 level 6 word, and was HSK 5 in the old six-level list.

What 打交道 means

1. to come into contact with
2. to have dealings

The characters in 打交道

• 打dǎa semantically light, transitive verb that is combined with various grammatical objects…
• 交jiāoto hand over; to deliver; to pay (money); to turn over; to make friends…
• 道dàoroad; path; (bound form) way; reason; principle; (bound form) a skill; an art…

Example sentences

• 别和这个人打交道。
  Bié hé zhège rén dǎjiāodào.
  Don't get involved with that guy.

Where 打交道 is taught

In the GraphChinese course it is part of Social Interaction & Communication (HSK 5), each one a topic in the dependency graph of HSK 1–6 that opens only once its prerequisites are solid.

Go deeper

• Every HSK 5 word, with the rest of its level.
• The four tones and the neutral tone, to read dǎ jiāo dào correctly.
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