懂得(dǒng de): to understand
to understand
Character breakdown
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Word information
- Pinyin
- dǒng de
- Meaning
- to understand; to know; to comprehend
- HSK level
- HSK 2
- Characters
- 2
- Traditional
- Same
Appears in lessons
懂得 is taught in these textbook lessons.
Example sentences
How 懂得 is used in everyday Chinese — the speaker reads the whole sentence.
我不懂得游泳。
wǒ bù dǒng de yóu yǒng
I don't know how to swim.
她懂得很多英文生字。
tā dǒng de hěn duō yīng wén shēng zì
She has a rich vocabulary of English words.
Related words
Common words sharing a character with 懂得 — tap one to open its word page.
to get; to obtain; to receive
to think that ...; to feel that ...
to remember
to acquire; to get; to obtain
to obtain (a result); to arrive at (a conclusion)
worth the money
to score a point (in a competition, test etc)
to recognize
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