懂
HSK 2freq #669
Meanings
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- 1.to understand
- 2.to comprehend
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Wiktionary
- 1.to understand; to comprehend
- 2.to know
- 3.used in 懵懂 (měngdǒng, “confused”)
- 4.a surname, Dong
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Etymology
Phono-semantic compound (形聲 /形声, OC *toːŋʔ): semantic 心 (“heart”) + phonetic 董 (OC *toːŋʔ). Perhaps cognate with 黨 (OC *taːŋʔ, “to know”), an ancient Chu dialect word (Schuessler, 2007).
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Stroke order
Components
Components from cjk-decomp · MIT
Example sentences
懂么？
Do you get it?
我懂。
I understand.
我不懂。
I don't get it.
懂了吗？
Do you follow?
懂了吗？
Got it?
懂了吗？
Do you understand?
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Derived terms
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Related words
懂得 to understand; to know; to comprehend懂事 to grow beyond the naivete of childhood; to be aware of what is going on in the world难懂 difficult to understand弄懂 to make sense of秒懂 to understand instantly懂眼 (coll.) to know the ropes懂哥 (slang) Mr. Know-it-all看懂 to understand what one is reading or watching易懂 easy to understand懵懂 confused; ignorant懂局 to be savvy懂行 to know the ropes