HSK 5 · Media

频道 píndào “frequency” in Chinese

Traditional 頻道

What 频道 means

  1. frequency
  2. (television) channel

How to say 频道

  • Pitch chart of the second tone: rises from mid to high, 3 to 5 on the five-level scale频pín2nd tone, rising
  • Pitch chart of the fourth tone: falls from high to low, 5 to 1 on the five-level scale道dào4th tone, falling

频道 in a sentence

  1. 欢迎来到我的频道。

    Huānyíng láidào wǒ de píndào.

    Welcome to my channel.

    Sentence #13259020 from Tatoeba · converted to simplified characters

  2. 那么你频道换掉也行啊。

    Nàme nǐ píndào huàndiào yě xíng a.

    Then you could just change the channel.

    Sentence #420800 from Tatoeba · translation adapted

  3. 欢迎收看本频道。

    Huānyíng shōukàn běn píndào.

    Welcome to this channel.

    Sentence #13517631 from Tatoeba · converted to simplified characters · translation adapted

How 频道 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 频 (pín) with each of its parts in a different colour
频pínfrequency
  • 步walk · bù
  • 页page · xié
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 频道

频 13 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.

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

Words related to 频道

Words with 频

频繁pínfán · frequent频率pínlǜ · frequency视频shìpín · video

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道理dàoli · reason

More words: Media & Arts

开幕式kāimùshì · opening ceremony美术měishù · art媒体méitǐ · media明星míngxīng · star色彩sècǎi · colour摄影shèyǐng · to take a photograph神话shénhuà · legend诗shī · poem

FAQs

频道 (píndào) means “frequency” or “(television) channel”. It is an HSK 5 word.
Say it píndào: pín with a 2nd 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, 频道 is written 頻道. The pronunciation is the same.
Add a Chinese (Simplified) pinyin keyboard to your phone or computer, type pindao with no tone marks or spaces, then choose 频道 from the suggestions. Typing pindao into this dictionary’s search box finds it too.
频道 is an HSK 5 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.