对

right, correct; to, towards

No. 27 most used · 0.39% of everyday spoken Chinese: about 1 character in every 254.

How it's built

• 又hand
• 寸inch

A way to remember it

A hand (又) measuring an inch (寸): exactly right.

Words

• 对不起

  duì bu qǐ

  I'm sorry; excuse me; I beg your pardon; to let (sb) down; to disappoint
• 绝对

  jué duì

  absolute; unconditional
• 对于

  duì yú

  regarding; as far as (sth) is concerned; with regard to
• 派对

  pài duì

  (loanword) party
• 面对

  miàn duì

  to face; to confront
• 反对

  fǎn duì

  to oppose; to be against; to object to

Sentences

• 他对你说了些什么？

  tā duì nǐ shuō le xiē shén me

  What did he say to you?
• 他对自己很有自信。

  tā duì zì jǐ hěn yǒu zì xìn

  He has great confidence in himself.
• 你经常对我说这个。

  nǐ jīng cháng duì wǒ shuō zhè ge

  You say this to me a lot.
• 她对我的车怎么看？

  tā duì wǒ de chē zěn me kàn

  What does she think about my car?

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How often characters are written: wordfreq by Robyn Speer, CC BY-SA 4.0, with data from Google Books Ngrams and SUBTLEX by Marc Brysbaert and others. Meanings: CC-CEDICT, CC BY-SA 4.0. Sentences: Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR. How often they're said: FrequencyWords and OPUS, from OpenSubtitles.