HSK 6 · Society

人道 réndào “humane” in Chinese

Same in Traditional

What 人道 means

  1. humane
  2. humanity
  3. humanitarianism
  4. human sympathy
  5. the “human way”, one of the stages in the cycle of reincarnation (Buddhism)

How to say 人道

  • Pitch chart of the second tone: rises from mid to high, 3 to 5 on the five-level scale人rén2nd 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

人道 in a sentence

  1. 存在主义是一种人道主义。

    Cúnzài zhǔyì shì yì zhǒng réndào zhǔyì.

    Existentialism is a humanism.

    Sentence #12137293 from Tatoeba

How 人道 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 人 (rén) drawn as one shape
人rénperson; people

人 is a single shape of 2 strokes. Learn it whole, then watch its stroke order below.

Memory aidA person walking, seen from the side: two legs.

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 人道

人 2 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.

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

Words related to 人道

Words with 人

人rén · person家人jiārén · family member男人nánrén · man女人nǚrén · woman别人biéren · other people客人kèrén · guest有人yǒurén · someone人们rénmen · people大人dàren · adult老人lǎorén · old person

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: Society & Law

权威quánwēi · authority取缔qǔdì · to ban群众qúnzhòng · the masses驱逐qūzhú · to expel人质rénzhì · hostage骚扰sāorǎo · to harass申报shēnbào · to declare审查shěnchá · to examine

FAQs

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