Mnemonic comic for 到

Translation

dào = d + ao4: to reach; to arrive / to leave for; to go to / to (a place); until (a time); up to (a point) / (verb complement indicating arriving at a place or reaching a point) / considerate; thoughtful; thorough

Mnemonic

Don Quixote (d) just finishes his latest quest as he arrives (到) in the aorta’s bathroom (ao4). He has been in search for a new weapon, and a GPS unit has guided him. He arrives at a conveyor belt (至) where a kitchen knife (刂) arrived. As he reaches for the kitchen knife, the GPS unit exclaims “you’ve arrived” (到).

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到 character breakdown

到
- 刂
  - 丨
  - 亅
- 至
  - 一
  - 厶
  - 土
    - 十
      - 一
      - 丨
    - 一

Component Translations

刂

dāo = d + ao1

Kangxi radical 18 (刀[dao1]) as a vertical side element / see also 立刀旁[li4 dao1 pang2] / see also 側刀旁|侧刀旁[ce4 dao1 pang2]

至

zhì = zh + Ø4

to arrive / most / to / until

Characters with 到 as component

倒捯

倒

dào = d + ao4

to invert; to place upside down or frontside back / to pour out / to tip out; to dump / inverted; upside down; reversed / to go backward / contrary to what one might expect; but; yet

倒

dǎo = d + ao3

to fall; to collapse; to lie horizontally / to fail; to go bankrupt / to overthrow / to change (trains or buses) / to move around / to resell at a profit

捯

dáo = d + ao2

(coll.) to reel in (string, yarn etc) by pulling hand over hand or by coiling / to step along / to look into / to pursue (a matter)

Words with 到

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看

kàn

到

dào

to see

找

zhǎo

到

dào

to find

得

dé

到

dào

to get / to obtain / to receive

Sentences with 到

要

yào

到

dào

龙

lóng

宫

gōng

去

qù

一

yī

趟

tàng

Go to the Dragon Palace.

Prompt snippets

The GPS navigation unit is a rectangular device with a matte black plastic casing and a glossy, slightly smudged glass touchscreen displaying the white text "you’ve arrived" against a dark blue interface. The screen features a thin, silver-toned bezel and a small circular power button on the side.