CHINESE DICTIONARY ENTRY

开导

kāidǎo

to talk sb round; to straighten sth out; to enlighten

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DEFINITIONS & USAGE

Meaning and common use

to talk sb round; to straighten sth out; to enlighten

REAL CORPUS EXAMPLES

How 开导 actually appears in real sentences.

These sentences are copied from the Tatoeba corpus, so they are real usage rather than generated text. 开导 appears in 2 of the 89,190 sentences we searched.

没人管束或开导他。méi rén guǎn shù huò kāi dǎo tā。

No one can control him.

教导学生，不到他想瞭解而不得其解的时候，不去开导他；不到他想表达意见却说不出来的时候，不去启发他。教给他一个方面的东西，他却不能由此而推知其它三个方面的东西，那就不再教他了。jiào dǎo xué shēng， bú dào tā xiǎng liǎo jiě ér bù dé qí jiě de shí hòu， bù qù kāi dǎo tā； bú dào tā xiǎng biǎo dá yì jiàn què shuō bù chū lái de shí hòu， bù qù qǐ fā tā。 jiāo gěi tā yí gè fāng miàn de dōng xī， tā què bù néng yóu cǐ ér tuī zhī qí tā sān gè fāng miàn de dōng xī， nà jiù bù zài jiào tā le。

When teaching a student, do not enlighten him until he wishes to understand what he could not. Do not inspire him until he wishes to express but could not. When teaching him one side of a solution, if he could not discover the other three sides, then do not teach him again.

COMMON COLLOCATIONS

Words that keep company with 开导.

Counted from the same corpus: the word that most often comes directly before, and directly after, 开导.

Directly before

不去开导1
或开导1

Directly after

开导他2

ABOUT THIS ENTRY

Where this entry comes from

The HSK level, part of speech, and pronunciation come from the HSK 3.1 vocabulary syllabus. The English definitions come from CC-CEDICT. Corpus sentences, collocations, and the frequency figure come from the Tatoeba Chinese sentence export and are counted rather than written, so nothing on this page is invented. Usage notes and the hand-written examples that appear higher up exist only for a handful of entries.

Definitions from CC-CEDICT, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0. Vocabulary levels and parts of speech from the HSK 3.1 syllabus. This compiled dictionary is shared under the same CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.

COMMON QUESTIONS

About 开导

What does 开导 mean in Chinese?

开导 (kāidǎo) means to talk sb round; to straighten sth out; to enlighten.

How do you pronounce 开导?

开导 is pronounced kāidǎo.

Is 开导 an HSK word?

开导 is on the list of the HSK 3.1 vocabulary syllabus.

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