難道

難道

See also: 难道

Chinese

		disaster; distress; to scold disaster; distress; to scold; difficult (to...); problem; difficulty; difficult; not good	direction; way; method direction; way; method; road; path; principle; truth; reason; skill; Tao (of Taoism); a measure word; to say; to speak; to talk
trad. (難道)		難	道
simp. (难道)		难	道

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): nándào

  (Zhuyin): ㄋㄢˊ ㄉㄠˋ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): naan⁴ dou⁶
• Min Nan (POJ): lân-tō͘ / lân-tō

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)
    • Pinyin: nándào
    • Zhuyin: ㄋㄢˊ ㄉㄠˋ
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: nandaw
    • IPA ^(key): /na̠n³⁵ tɑʊ̯⁵¹/
    • Homophones:

      [Show/Hide]
      edit edit 難道／难道 難點／难点

• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)
    • Jyutping: naan⁴ dou⁶
    • Yale: nàahn douh
    • Cantonese Pinyin: naan⁴ dou⁶
    • Guangdong Romanization: nan⁴ dou⁶
    • IPA ^(key): /naːn²¹ tou̯²²/
    • Homophones:

      edit edit 難度／难度 難道／难道

• Min Nan
  • (Hokkien: Quanzhou)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: lân-tō͘
    • Tâi-lô: lân-tōo
    • Phofsit Daibuun: lando
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /lan²⁴⁻²² tɔ⁴¹/
  • (Hokkien: Xiamen, Zhangzhou)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: lân-tō
    • Tâi-lô: lân-tō
    • Phofsit Daibuun: landoi
    • IPA (Xiamen): /lan²⁴⁻²² to²²/
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /lan¹³⁻²² to²²/

Adverb

難道

1. Indicates a rhetorical question: surely it doesn't mean that..., is it possible that...

   • 難道你真的大膽妄為，連聖旨都不顧了嗎。 [MSC, trad.]
     难道你真的大胆妄为，连圣旨都不顾了吗。 [MSC, simp.]

     From: Justice Bao

     Nándào nǐ zhēn de dàdǎn wàngwèi, lián shèngzhǐ dōu bùgù le ma. [Pinyin]

     Don't tell me that you really dare take action arbitrarily without even caring about the royal decree at all, do you?

Synonyms

Dialectal synonyms of 難道 (“could it be that; is it possible that”) [map]
Variety	Location	Words edit
Classical Chinese		莫非, 豈
Formal (Written Standard Chinese)		莫非, 豈, 難道
Mandarin	Beijing	難道, 難不成, 甭
	Taiwan	難道, 難不成
Cantonese	Guangzhou	唔通
	Hong Kong	唔通
	Taishan	唔成, 敢係, 唔得旨, 毋旨, 毋旨估
Hakka	Miaoli (N. Sixian)	無成, 敢講, 敢係
	Liudui (S. Sixian)	無成, 敢講, 敢係
	Hsinchu (Hailu)	無成, 敢講, 敢係
	Dongshi (Dabu)	無成, 敢講, 敢會, 敢係
	Hsinchu (Raoping)	無成, 毋成, 敢講, 敢係
	Yunlin (Zhao'an)	無敢, 敢講, 敢會, 敢係
Min Nan	Xiamen	敢
	Quanzhou	敢
	Zhangzhou	敢
	Taipei	敢, 盍