HSK 6 · Places

赤道 chìdào “the equator” in Chinese

Same in Traditional

What 赤道 means

  1. the equator
  2. equator (of the earth or a celestial body)
  3. celestial equator

How to say 赤道

  • Pitch chart of the fourth tone: falls from high to low, 5 to 1 on the five-level scale赤chì4th tone, falling
  • Pitch chart of the fourth tone: falls from high to low, 5 to 1 on the five-level scale道dào4th tone, falling

赤道 in a sentence

  1. 那条船昨天穿过了赤道。

    Nà tiáo chuán zuótiān chuānguò le chìdào.

    That ship crossed the equator yesterday.

    Sentence #846789 from Tatoeba

  2. 我去澳大利亚旅游的时候第一次穿越了赤道。

    Wǒ qù Àodàlìyà lǚyóu de shíhou dìyī cì chuānyuè le chìdào.

    I crossed the equator for the first time on my trip to Australia.

    Sentence #336010 from Tatoeba

  3. 赤道把地球分为两个半球。

    Chìdào bǎ dìqiú fēnwéi liǎng ge bànqiú.

    The equator divides the globe into two hemispheres.

    Sentence #746060 from Tatoeba

How 赤道 is built

Each colour is one part of the character. Parts repeat across thousands of characters, so learning them makes new words easier. See all 214 in our radicals chart.

The character 赤 (chì) with each of its parts in a different colour
赤chìred
  • 土earth · tǔ
  • 火fire · huǒ
The character 道 (dào) with each of its parts in a different colour
道dàoroad; path 条,股)
  • 首head · shǒuSound part
  • 辶walking form of 辵 · chuòMeaning part

辶 hints at the meaning (walking); 首 (shǒu) hints at the sound. Compare it with dào.

Memory aidPicture walking 辶 with your head 首 leading the way: a road, a way.

How to write 赤道

赤 7 strokes · 道 12 strokes

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赤道 (chìdào) stroke order chart: each stroke of the characters in the order you write them
Stroke order chart for 赤道 (chìdào). Red marks the next stroke, so you can copy it onto paper one step at a time.

Words related to 赤道

Words with 赤

赤字chìzì · deficit

Words with 道

知道zhīdao · to know (a fact)街道jiēdào · street道dào · (m.w. for orders味道wèidao · flavour道歉dàoqiàn · to apologise难道nándào · don’t tell me …报道bàodào · to report (news)地道dìdao · authentic道德dàodé · virtue频道píndào · frequency

More words: Places & Geography

仓库cāngkù · warehouse岔chà · fork (in a road)场所chǎngsuǒ · place城堡chéngbǎo · castle地势dìshì · terrain方位fāngwèi · position方圆fāngyuán · surrounding area废墟fèixū · ruins

FAQs

赤道 (chìdào) means “the equator” or “equator (of the earth or a celestial body)”. It is an HSK 6 word.
Say it chìdào: chì with a 4th tone, then dào with a 4th tone. Press Listen at the top of this page to hear it, or Slowly to hear each tone clearly.
Yes. 赤道 is written the same way in Simplified and Traditional characters.
Add a Chinese (Simplified) pinyin keyboard to your phone or computer, type chidao with no tone marks or spaces, then choose 赤道 from the suggestions. Typing chidao into this dictionary’s search box finds it too.
赤道 is an HSK 6 word in the HSK 2.0 word lists.

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Sources: meaning and pinyin checked by a native Mandarin teacher against the official HSK lists. Extra meanings from CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0). Example sentences from Tatoeba (CC BY 2.0 FR). Character parts and stroke order from Make Me a Hanzi.