HSK 6 · Transport

导航 dǎoháng “navigation” in Chinese

Traditional 導航

What 导航 means

  1. navigation
  2. to navigate
  3. (lit. and fig.) to navigate

How to say 导航

  • Pitch chart of the third tone: dips low then rises, 2 to 1 to 4 on the five-level scale导dǎo3rd tone, dipping
  • Pitch chart of the second tone: rises from mid to high, 3 to 5 on the five-level scale航háng2nd tone, rising

导航 in a sentence

  1. 开车的时候我都用手机导航。

    Kāichē de shíhou wǒ dōu yòng shǒujī dǎoháng.

    I always use my phone for navigation when I drive.

    Sentence by WillyChina

  2. 导航说前面右转。

    Dǎoháng shuō qiánmiàn yòuzhuǎn.

    The navigation app says to turn right ahead.

    Sentence by WillyChina

How 导航 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 导 (dǎo) with each of its parts in a different colour
导dǎoto transmit
  • 巳part of the character
  • 寸inch · cùn
The character 航 (háng) with each of its parts in a different colour
航hángboat
  • 舟boat · zhōuMeaning part
  • 亢high · kàngSound part

舟 hints at the meaning (boat); 亢 (kàng) hints at the sound. Compare it with háng.

How to write 导航

导 6 strokes · 航 10 strokes

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

Words related to 导航

Words with 导

导游dǎoyóu · tour guide导致dǎozhì · to lead to指导zhǐdǎo · to guide辅导fǔdǎo · to give guidance导演dǎoyǎn · director (of a film or play)领导lǐngdǎo · leader倡导chàngdǎo · to advocate引导yǐndǎo · to guide主导zhǔdǎo · dominant导弹dǎodàn · guided missile

Words with 航

航班hángbān · (scheduled) flight航天hángtiān · spaceflight航空hángkōng · aviation航行hángxíng · to sail

More words: Everyday Things

舱cāng · cabin (of a ship or plane)乘chéng · to ride船舶chuánbó · ships穿越chuānyuè · to pass through登陆dēnglù · to land颠簸diānbǒ · to jolt抵达dǐdá · to arrive动身dòngshēn · to set out

FAQs

导航 (dǎoháng) means “navigation” or “to navigate”. It is an HSK 6 word.
Say it dǎoháng: dǎo with a 3rd tone, then háng with a 2nd tone. Press Listen at the top of this page to hear it, or Slowly to hear each tone clearly.
In Traditional characters, used in Taiwan and Hong Kong, 导航 is written 導航. The pronunciation is the same.
Add a Chinese (Simplified) pinyin keyboard to your phone or computer, type daohang with no tone marks or spaces, then choose 导航 from the suggestions. Typing daohang into this dictionary’s search box finds it too.
导航 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 written by WillyChina. Character parts and stroke order from Make Me a Hanzi.