HSK 6 · Adjectives

霸道 bàdào “overbearing” in Chinese

Same in Traditional

What 霸道 means

  1. overbearing
  2. domineering
  3. high-handed

How to say 霸道

  • Pitch chart of the fourth tone: falls from high to low, 5 to 1 on the five-level scale霸bà4th 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

霸道 in a sentence

  1. 汤姆很霸道。

    Tāngmǔ hěn bàdào.

    Tom is bossy.

    Sentence #13958069 from Tatoeba · converted to simplified characters · translation adapted

How 霸道 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 霸 (bà) with each of its parts in a different colour
霸bàhegemon
  • 雨rain · yǔMeaning part
  • 革leather · gé
  • 月moon · yuè
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 霸道

霸 21 strokes · 道 12 strokes

Watch the order, then press Try writing it and draw each stroke in the grid. Each stroke is checked as you go.

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

Words related to 霸道

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: Adjectives

暧昧àimèi · ambiguous安宁ānníng · peaceful安详ānxiáng · serene凹凸āotū · uneven保守bǎoshǒu · conservative卑鄙bēibǐ · despicable悲惨bēicǎn · miserable被动bèidòng · passive

FAQs

霸道 (bàdào) means “overbearing” or “domineering”. It is an HSK 6 word.
Say it bàdào: bà 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. 霸道 is written the same way in Simplified and Traditional characters.
Add a Chinese (Simplified) pinyin keyboard to your phone or computer, type badao with no tone marks or spaces, then choose 霸道 from the suggestions. Typing badao into this dictionary’s search box finds it too.
霸道 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.