到

to arrive; to, until

No. 25 most used · 0.66% of everyday spoken Chinese: about 1 character in every 151.

How it's built

• 至arrive
• 刂knifeGives the sound: dāo

A way to remember it

Arrive (至) at the point of a knife (刂): you're there.

Words

• 看到

  kàn dào

  to see
• 找到

  zhǎo dào

  to find
• 得到

  dé dào

  to get; to obtain; to receive
• 到底

  dào dǐ

  finally; in the end; when all is said and done
• 听到

  tīng dào

  to hear
• 不到

  bú dào

  not to arrive; not reaching; insufficient

Sentences

• 他们什么都没看到。

  tā men shén me dōu méi kàn dào

  They did not see anything.
• 他可能很快就到了。

  tā kě néng hěn kuài jiù dào le

  He is likely to arrive soon.
• 他想到一个好主意。

  tā xiǎng dào yí ge hǎo zhǔ yi

  A good idea occurred to him.
• 任何人都可以做到。

  rèn hé rén dōu kě yǐ zuò dào

  Anyone can do that.

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How often characters are written: wordfreq by Robyn Speer, CC BY-SA 4.0, with data from Google Books Ngrams and SUBTLEX by Marc Brysbaert and others. Meanings: CC-CEDICT, CC BY-SA 4.0. Sentences: Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR. How often they're said: FrequencyWords and OPUS, from OpenSubtitles.