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CHINESE DICTIONARY ENTRY

读懂

dúdǒng

to read and understand

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DEFINITIONS & USAGE

Meaning and common use

01

to read and understand

REAL CORPUS EXAMPLES

How 读懂 actually appears in real sentences.

These sentences are copied from the Tatoeba corpus, so they are real usage rather than generated text. 读懂 appears in 4 of the 89,190 sentences we searched.

我很难读懂这本书。wǒ hěn nán dú dǒng zhè běn shū。

It's difficult for me to read the book.

这部小说很难读懂。zhè bù xiǎo shuō hěn nán dú dǒng。

It is difficult to understand this novel.

读懂字里行间的意思。dú dǒng zì lǐ háng jiān de yì si。

Read between the lines.

COMMON COLLOCATIONS

Words that keep company with 读懂.

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

Directly before

  • 很难读懂1
  • 地读懂1
  • 难读懂1

Directly after

  • 读懂法语1
  • 读懂这1
  • 读懂字里行间1
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 读懂

What does 读懂 mean in Chinese?

读懂 (dúdǒng) means to read and understand.

How do you pronounce 读懂?

读懂 is pronounced dúdǒng.

Is 读懂 an HSK word?

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

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