dào
go to
Phonosemantic compound. 至 represents the meaning and 刂 represents the sound.
Components
Evolution

Bronze script
Mid Western Zhou (~900 BC)
Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)
Clerical script
Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)Regular script
ModernDefinitions
dào
go to, arrive, been to; to (a place); until (a time); up to; to go; to arrive; (verb complement denoting completion or result of an action)
Component uses
Sound component in 1 character (1 verified)
Historical pronunciation
Old Chinese | Middle Chinese | Pinyin | Gloss |
*tˤaw[k]-s | tawH | dào | arrive |
Statistics
HSK level 1
Appears in 100.0000% of movies
24th most common character in movies
22nd most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 8 |
Unicode | U+5230 |
Shuowen | “到,至也。从至,刀聲。” |
Sources
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