HSK 6 · Adjectives

妥当 tuǒdang “appropriate” in Chinese

Traditional 妥當

What 妥当 means

  1. appropriate
  2. proper
  3. ready

How to say 妥当

  • Pitch chart of the third tone: dips low then rises, 2 to 1 to 4 on the five-level scale妥tuǒ3rd tone, dipping
  • Pitch chart of the neutral tone: short and light, with no contour of its own当dangneutral tone, light and short

Grey pinyin is a neutral tone: say it short and light. More on the neutral tone

妥当 in a sentence

  1. 恐怕这里提法不妥当。

    Kǒngpà zhèlǐ tífǎ bù tuǒdang.

    I’m afraid the wording here isn’t appropriate.

    Sentence #2699608 from Tatoeba · translation adapted

  2. 迄今，一切妥当。

    Qìjīn, yíqiè tuǒdang.

    So far, everything is in order.

    Sentence #1749264 from Tatoeba · translation adapted

How 妥当 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 妥 (tuǒ) with each of its parts in a different colour
妥tuǒsuitable
  • 爫claw form of 爪 · zhǎo
  • 女woman · nǚ
The character 当 (dāng) with each of its parts in a different colour
当dāngdonglight in 妥当
  • ⺌small form of 小 · xiǎo
  • 彐snout · jì

How to write 妥当

妥 7 strokes · 当 6 strokes

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

Words related to 妥当

Words with 妥

妥协tuǒxié · to compromise妥善tuǒshàn · appropriate

Words with 当

当然dāngrán · of course当dāng · to act as当时dāngshí · then当地dāngdì · local当心dāngxīn · to be careful上当shàngdàng · to be fooled相当xiāngdāng · equivalent to当场dāngchǎng · on the spot当初dāngchū · originally当代dāngdài · contemporary

More words: Adjectives

体面tǐmiàn · respectable挺拔tǐngbá · tall and straight通俗tōngsú · popular通用tōngyòng · in common use妥善tuǒshàn · appropriate外向wàixiàng · outgoing完备wánbèi · complete顽固wángù · stubborn

FAQs

妥当 (tuǒdang) means “appropriate” or “proper”. It is an HSK 6 word.
Say it tuǒdang: tuǒ with a 3rd tone, then dang with a neutral 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, 妥当 is written 妥當. The pronunciation is the same.
Add a Chinese (Simplified) pinyin keyboard to your phone or computer, type tuodang with no tone marks or spaces, then choose 妥当 from the suggestions. Typing tuodang into this dictionary’s search box finds it too.
妥当 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.