IDENTITY
到dàoto arrive; to reach
HSK 1Top 80
CORE MEANING
to arrive; to reach
- Part of speech
- verb
- Register
- neutral
Senses
- 1.to arriveHSK1
- 2.to reach (a place); to go toHSK1
FORM & BREAKDOWN
- Radical
- 刂knife radical (dāo)
- strokes
- 8
- Structure
- left-right compound
- IDS sequence
- ⿰至刂
- to arrive (arrow touching ground)
- cutting; completion
USAGE
Common words
看到kàndàoto see
听到tīngdàoto hear
到处dàochùeverywhere
Graded examples
我们到了。Wǒmen dào le.HSK1
We have arrived.
RELATIONS
Lookalike — don’t mix up
POEM LINES WITH THIS CHARACTER
LEARNING
Memory aid
An arrow (至) landing and settling (刂) — arrival.
- HSK version
- 3.0
- Frequency rank
- #80
- Memory aid
- memory-aid
TRUST & SOURCES
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- AI-assisted editorial review
- Last reviewed
- 2026-08-15
Sources
- CC-CEDICT 2026-01-01
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