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难道

nán dào

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

难道 (nán dào) means "don't tell me ...". It is an HSK 3.0 level 4 word, and was HSK 4 in the old six-level list.

What 难道 means

1. don't tell me ...
2. could it be that...?

The characters in 难道

• 难nándifficult (to...); problem; difficulty
• 道dàoroad; path; (bound form) way; reason; principle; (bound form) a skill; an art…

Example sentences

• 难道不是这样吗？
  Is this not so?
• 难道你不感到荣幸？
  Nándào nǐ bù gǎndào róngxìng?
  Don't you feel honored?
• 难道你不想念什么吗？
  Nándào nǐ bù xiǎngniàn shénme ma?
  Don't you miss anything?
• 难道你不想念什幺吗？
  Don't you miss anything?
• 难道不该有人帮汤姆吗？
  Nándào bù gāi yǒu rén bāng Tāngmǔ ma?
  Shouldn't somebody be helping Tom?
• 他把我忘了，难道不是吗？
  He had forgotten me, didn't he?

Where 难道 is taught

In the GraphChinese course it is part of Modal & certainty adverbs (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 nán dào correctly.
• Look up another word in the free dictionary.