都

all, both

No. 52 most used · 0.42% of everyday spoken Chinese: about 1 character in every 236.

Also read: dū 首都

How it's built

• 者person
• 阝town

A way to remember it

Everyone (者) in the town (阝): all of them.

Words

• 全都

  quán dōu

  all; without exception

Sentences

• 他以为什么都知道。

  tā yǐ wéi shén me dōu zhī dào

  He thinks he knows everything.
• 他们什么都没看到。

  tā men shén me dōu méi kàn dào

  They did not see anything.
• 他们都是一样的吗？

  tā men dōu shì yí yàng de ma

  Are they all the same?
• 任何人都可以做到。

  rèn hé rén dōu kě yǐ zuò dào

  Anyone can do that.

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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.