IDENTITY
都dōuall; both
HSK 1Top 50
CORE MEANING
all; both
- Part of speech
- adverb
- Register
- neutral
Senses
- 1.all; bothHSK1
FORM & BREAKDOWN
- Radical
- 阝city radical (yì)
- strokes
- 10
- Structure
- left-right compound
- IDS sequence
- ⿰者阝
- gives the sound dū (city) → dōu
- city
USAGE
Common words
都是dōu shìall are
首都shǒudūcapital
Graded examples
大家都很高兴。Dàjiā dōu hěn gāoxìng.HSK1
Everyone is very happy.
RELATIONS
Lookalike — don’t mix up
- 者
LEARNING
Memory aid
A capital city (阝) gathering everyone (者) — all, both. (From 都, city.)
- HSK version
- 3.0
- Frequency rank
- #50
- Memory aid
- memory-aid
TRUST & SOURCES
- Reviewed by
- AI-assisted editorial review
- Last reviewed
- 2026-08-15
Sources
- CC-CEDICT 2026-01-01
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