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蹈

dǎo

HSK 6 Character

What 蹈 means

1. to tread on
2. to trample
3. to stamp
4. to fulfill
5. Taiwan pr. dào

Example sentences

• 我不知道那种舞蹈。
  Wǒ bù zhīdào nàzhǒng wǔdǎo.
  I do not know that dance.
• 葵成为一个舞蹈家。
  Kuí chéngwéi yī gè wǔdǎojiā.
  Aoi became a dancer.
• 贝蒂是一个舞蹈老师。
  Betty is a dancing teacher.
• 听说汤姆不会重蹈覆辙了。
  Tīngshuō Tāngmǔ bù huì chóngdǎofùzhé le.
  I hear that Tom won't do that again.
• 听说汤姆不会重蹈复辙了。
  I hear Tom won't do that again.
• 桌子上有一本关于舞蹈的书。
  Zhuōzi shàng yǒu yī běn guānyú wǔdǎo de shū.
  There is a book about dancing on the desk.

Words starting with 蹈

• 蹈常袭故dǎo cháng xí gùfollow the same old path (idiom); stuck in a rut; always the same routine

Words containing 蹈

• 舞蹈wǔ dǎodance (performance art); dancing
• 手舞足蹈shǒu wǔ zú dǎolit. to move one's hands and feet about (idiom); fig. to dance about…
• 循规蹈矩xún guī dǎo jǔto follow the compass and go with the set square (idiom); to follow the rules inflexibly…
• 舞蹈家wǔ dǎo jiādancer
• 重蹈覆辙chóng dǎo fù zhélit. to follow in the tracks of an overturned cart (idiom)…
• 赴汤蹈火fù tāng dǎo huǒlit. to jump into scalding water and plunge into raging fire (idiom)…
• 重蹈chóng dǎo(fig.) to follow (a path that has proved ill-advised)
• 高蹈gāo dǎoto travel far
• 民族舞蹈mín zú wǔ dǎofolk dance
• 民间舞蹈mín jiān wǔ dǎofolk dance
• 高举远蹈gāo jǔ yuǎn dǎoto leave office for a high and distant place (idiom)…
• 亨丁顿舞蹈症Hēng dīng dùn wǔ dǎo zhèngHuntington's disease
• 亨廷顿舞蹈症Hēng tíng dùn wǔ dǎo zhèngHuntington's disease
• 北京舞蹈学院Běi jīng Wǔ dǎo Xué yuànBeijing Dance Academy
• 发扬蹈厉fā yáng dǎo lìsee 发扬踔厉

Characters built on 舀

These share the phonetic component 舀 (yǎo), which is why their readings rhyme. Learning them as a family is far cheaper than learning them one at a time.

• 稻dàopaddy; rice (Oryza sativa)
• 滔tāo(bound form) to inundate; deluge; torrent
• 韬tāobow case or scabbard; to hide; military strategy

Characters that look like 蹈

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

• 燃ránto burn; to ignite; to light
• 蹦bèngto jump; to bounce; to hop
• 濑làiname of a river; rushing of water
• 鞘qiàoscabbard; sheath
• 獭tǎotter; Taiwan pr. tà
• 鳃sāigills of fish

Sounds the same

Read dǎo, tone for tone, but written differently.

• 倒to fall; to collapse; to lie horizontally; to fail; to go bankrupt; to overthrow
• 导to transmit; to lead; to guide
• 岛island
• 捣to pound; to beat; to hull
• 祷prayer; pray; supplication
• 壔column; cylinder
• 擣stir; to pound
• 禂to pray; prayer
• 嶋variant of 岛; used as second component of Japanese names with phonetic value -shima or…
• 嶌variant of 岛; used in Japanese names with reading -shima or -jima