难道
nán dàoㄋㄢˊ ㄉㄠˋ
Traditional: 難道
HSK 4HSK 3.0 · 4TOCFL 4
难道 (nán dào) means don't tell me ...; could it be that...?.
Meaning(adverb)
don't tell me ...; could it be that...?
Rhetorical question, often ending in 吗; it implies the opposite.
Examples
难道你不知道吗？
nán dào nǐ bù zhī dào ma?
Don't tell me you didn't know?
难道他忘了今天开会？
nán dào tā wàng le jīn tiān kāi huì?
Could he have forgotten today's meeting?
这么简单，难道你不会？
zhè me jiǎn dān, nán dào nǐ bú huì?
It's this easy and you can't do it?
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Stroke order
10 strokes
difficult (to...); problem; difficulty; difficult; not good
12 strokes
road; path; principle; truth; morality; reason; skill; method; Dao (of Daoism); to say; to speak; to talk; classifier for long thin things (rivers, cracks etc), barriers (walls, doors etc), q
Related words
- 难 nán — difficult (to...); problem; difficulty; difficult; not good
- 难过 nán guò — to feel sad; to feel unwell; (of life) to be difficult
- 困难 kùn nan — difficult; challenging; straitened circumstances; difficult situation
- 难受 nán shòu — to feel unwell; to suffer pain; to be difficult to bear
- 难怪 nán guài — (it's) no wonder (that...); (it's) not surprising (that)
- 难看 nán kàn — ugly; unsightly
- 艰难 jiān nán — difficult; hard; challenging
- 灾难 zāi nàn — disaster; catastrophe