HSK 4 · Work

导游 dǎoyóu “tour guide” in Chinese

Traditional 導遊

What 导游 means

  1. tour guide
  2. guidebook
  3. to conduct a tour

How to say 导游

  • 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游yóu2nd tone, rising

导游 in a sentence

  1. 我在东京做导游。

    Wǒ zài Dōngjīng zuò dǎoyóu.

    I’m a tour guide in Tokyo.

    Sentence #12422626 from Tatoeba · translation adapted

  2. 他们和一个导游一起出发，只是为了以防迷路。

    Tāmen hé yí ge dǎoyóu yìqǐ chūfā, zhǐshì wèile yǐfáng mílù.

    They set out with a guide, just in case they got lost.

    Sentence #333819 from Tatoeba · translation adapted

  3. 这本导游册子或许会对你的旅行有帮助。

    Zhè běn dǎoyóu cèzi huòxǔ huì duì nǐ de lǚxíng yǒu bāngzhù.

    This guidebook might be of use to you on your trip.

    Sentence #1502350 from Tatoeba

How 导游 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 游 (yóu) with each of its parts in a different colour
游yóuto swim
  • 氵water form of 水 · shuǐ
  • 斿to swim · yóu

Memory aidWater 氵 gives the meaning: to swim, and from there to travel around.

How to write 导游

导 6 strokes · 游 12 strokes

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

Words related to 导游

Words with 导

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导航dǎoháng · navigation

Words with 游

游yóu · to swim旅游lǚyóu · to travel游泳yóuyǒng · to swim游戏yóuxì · game游客yóukè · tourist游览yóulǎn · to go sightseeing上游shàngyóu · upper reaches (of a river)

More words: School, Work & Culture

语法yǔfǎ · grammar语言yǔyán · language专业zhuānyè · major (at university)大夫dàifu · doctor付款fùkuǎn · to pay a sum of money工资gōngzī · wages顾客gùkè · customer管理guǎnlǐ · to supervise

FAQs

导游 (dǎoyóu) means “tour guide” or “guidebook”. It is an HSK 4 word.
Say it dǎoyóu: dǎo with a 3rd tone, then yóu 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, 导游 is written 導遊. The pronunciation is the same.
Add a Chinese (Simplified) pinyin keyboard to your phone or computer, type daoyou with no tone marks or spaces, then choose 导游 from the suggestions. Typing daoyou into this dictionary’s search box finds it too.
导游 is an HSK 4 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.