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见到 jiàndào “to see” in Chinese

Traditional 見到

What 见到 means

  1. to see
  2. to meet

How to say 见到

  • Pitch chart of the fourth tone: falls from high to low, 5 to 1 on the five-level scale见jiàn4th tone, falling
  • Pitch chart of the fourth tone: falls from high to low, 5 to 1 on the five-level scale到dào4th tone, falling

见到 in a sentence

  1. 我明天能见到你吗？

    Wǒ míngtiān néng jiàndào nǐ ma?

    Can I see you tomorrow?

    Sentence #7774799 from Tatoeba · translation adapted

  2. 我们很高兴再次见到你。

    Wǒmen hěn gāoxìng zàicì jiàndào nǐ.

    We’re very happy to see you again.

    Sentence #1454441 from Tatoeba · translation adapted

  3. 我已经好久没有见到你了。

    Wǒ yǐjīng hǎojiǔ méiyǒu jiàndào nǐ le.

    I haven’t seen you for ages.

    Sentence #848975 from Tatoeba · converted to simplified characters · translation adapted

How 见到 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 见 (jiàn) with each of its parts in a different colour
见jiànto see
  • 冂down box · jiōng
  • 儿legs · ér

Memory aidSimplified from 見: a big eye 目 on top of a person 儿: to see.

The character 到 (dào) with each of its parts in a different colour
到dàoto reach; to arrive
  • 至arrive · zhìMeaning part
  • 刂knife form of 刀 · dāoSound part

至 hints at the meaning (arrive); 刂 (dāo) hints at the sound. Compare it with dào.

Memory aidArrive 至 gives the meaning; the knife 刂 (刀 dāo) gives the sound: to arrive.

How to write 见到

见 4 strokes · 到 8 strokes

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

Words related to 见到

Words with 见

看见kànjiàn · to see再见zàijiàn · goodbye听见tīngjiàn · to hear见jiàn · to see见面jiànmiàn · meet/see somebody不见bújiàn · to be missing遇见yùjiàn · to meet (by chance)常见chángjiàn · common意见yìjiàn · idea可见kějiàn · it can clearly be seen (that this is the case)

Words with 到

到dào · to迟到chídào · arrive late遇到yùdào · to meet想到xiǎngdào · to think of感到gǎndào · to feel做到zuòdào · to accomplish直到zhídào · until得到dédào · to get收到shōudào · to receive受到shòudào · to receive (praise

More words: Action & Change Verbs

变biàn · to change加jiā · to add选xuǎn · to choose办bàn · to handle算suàn · to calculate改gǎi · to change成chéng · to become求qiú · to seek

FAQs

见到 (jiàndào) means “to see” or “to meet”. It is on our HSK 3.0 Band 3 word list.
Say it jiàndào: jiàn 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.
In Traditional characters, used in Taiwan and Hong Kong, 见到 is written 見到. The pronunciation is the same.
Add a Chinese (Simplified) pinyin keyboard to your phone or computer, type jiandao with no tone marks or spaces, then choose 见到 from the suggestions. Typing jiandao into this dictionary’s search box finds it too.
见到 is not listed as a separate word in the official 2021 HSK 3.0 syllabus, but it is on our HSK 3.0 Band 3 word list. It is not on the older 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.