地道

dìdào / dìdao
noun HSK 7-9 #6,462

Meanings

  1. 1 tunnel; underground passage

Examples

HSK 4
Zhè tiáo dìdào tōngwǎng chéngwài.
This tunnel leads outside the city.
HSK 6
Zhànzhēng shíqī, cūnmín wā le hěnduō dìdào.
During the war the villagers dug a lot of tunnels.
HSK 6
Tāmen tōngguò dìdào táozǒu le.
They escaped through the tunnel.

Tips

mistakes
Full fourth tone on . Said with a neutral second syllable it becomes 地道, the everyday adjective meaning authentic and by far the more common word, so this reading is the one that gets lost.
culture
Best known from 地道战, tunnel warfare, a reference to the village tunnel networks of the war against Japan and the title of a 1965 film most people in China have seen.

Stroke Order

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