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

Etymology

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Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): nándào

  (Zhuyin): ㄋㄢˊ ㄉㄠˋ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): naan⁴ dou⁶
• Southern Min (Hokkien, POJ): lân-tō͘ / lân-tō

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)
    • Hanyu Pinyin: nándào
    • Zhuyin: ㄋㄢˊ ㄉㄠˋ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: nándào
    • Wade–Giles: nan²-tao⁴
    • Yale: nán-dàu
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: nandaw
    • Palladius: наньдао (nanʹdao)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /nän³⁵ tɑʊ̯⁵¹/
    • Homophones:

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      edit edit 難道／难道 難點／难点

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

      edit edit 難度／难度 難道／难道

• Southern Min
  • (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

(deprecated template usage) 難道

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

   • 外國人能做到，難道中國人就做不到嗎？ [MSC, trad.]
     外国人能做到，难道中国人就做不到吗？ [MSC, simp.]

     Wàiguórén néng zuòdào, nándào zhōngguórén jiù zuòbùdào ma? [Pinyin]

     Foreigners can do it; can't the Chinese people do it?

   • 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, 莫不是
Formal (Written Standard Chinese)		莫非, 豈, 難道, 莫不是
Northeastern Mandarin	Beijing	難道, 難不成, 甭
	Taiwan	難道, 難不成
Central Plains Mandarin	Xuzhou	難說
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
	Pingtung (Neipu; S. Sixian)	無成, 敢講, 敢係
	Hsinchu County (Zhudong; Hailu)	無成, 敢講, 敢係
	Taichung (Dongshi; Dabu)	無成, 敢講, 敢會, 敢係
	Hsinchu County (Qionglin; Raoping)	無成, 毋成, 敢講, 敢係
	Yunlin (Lunbei; Zhao'an)	無敢, 敢講, 敢會, 敢係
Southern Min	Xiamen	敢, 總無
	Quanzhou	敢, 總無, 攏無
	Zhangzhou	敢, 總無
	Tainan	敢
	Manila (Hokkien)	敢
	Shantou	未是
	Jieyang	未是, 敢, 敢是
Wu	Shanghai	只勿
	Shanghai (Chongming)	難算得
Xiang	Changsha	冇過

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