祷 (dǎo): prayer, pray, supplication
祷 (dǎo) is a Chinese character meaning “prayer.” Classified as HSK Level 7-9 (HSK 3.0 Standard, CLEC 2022), it is composed of 礻 (semantic) and 寿 (phonetic). It ranks #2399 in character frequency (SUBTLEX-CH corpus).
Etymologically derived, 祷 spirit. Its radical form 礻 (spirit) appears in many related characters such as 票 (piào, ticket), 视 (shì, (literary, or bound form) to look at), 示 (shì, to show).
Definitions
- prayer
- pray
- supplication
Etymology & Origin
Stroke Order
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Words & Compounds
Common Compounds
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 祈祷verb | qí dǎo | to pray |
| 祷告verb | dǎo gào | to pray |
| 祷文noun | dǎo wén | litany (text of a prayer) |
| 默祷verb | mò dǎo | silent prayer |
| 主祷文proper-noun | zhǔ dǎo wén | Lord's Prayer |
| 做祷告 | zuò dǎo gào | to pray |
| 代祷verb | dài dǎo | to pray on behalf of sb |
| 祷念 | dǎo niàn | to pray |
| 晚祷noun | wǎn dǎo | evening prayer |
| 闭会祈祷 | bì huì qí dǎo | benediction |
| 启应祈祷 | qǐ yìng qí dǎo | Introitus (section of Catholic mass) |
| 祷词 | dǎo cí | litany (text of a prayer) |
| 晨祷noun | chén dǎo | (Anglican) matins |
| 祷祝verb | dǎo zhù | to pray (for sth) |
| 祝祷verb | zhù dǎo | to pray |
祷 appears in 16 compound words: 31 as the first character, 56 as the last, and 13 in a middle position. Compound statistics computed from SUBTLEX-CH and HSK 3.0 vocabulary data.
Strongest Collocations
Characters that most frequently co-occur with 祷 in natural Chinese text, ranked by NPMI (Normalized Pointwise Mutual Information) — a statistical measure of association strength.
Example Sentences
祷字虽然难写,但意思很有趣。
dǎo zì suī rán nán xiě , dàn yì sī hěn yǒu qù .
The character for "pray" may be difficult to write, but its meaning is quite interesting.
说白了,联网游戏的机制意味着你只能祈祷平台不会将你热爱的游戏下架。
shuō bái le , lián wǎng yóu xì de jī zhì yì wèi zhe nǐ zhī néng qí dǎo píng tái bù huì jiāng nǐ rè ài de yóu xì xià jià .
To put it simply, the nature of online games means you can only hope the platform doesn't take down the games you love.
尸体没有拖拽的痕迹,全身很干净,并且被摆成了祈祷的姿势。
shī tǐ méi yǒu tuō zhuāi de hén jì , quán shēn hěn gān jìng , bìng qiě bèi bǎi chéng le qí dǎo de zī shì .
There were no signs that the body had been dragged; it was clean all over and had been arranged in a praying position.
员工偷偷在用,IT 部门装作没看见,法务在祈祷别出事。
yuán gōng tōu tōu zài yòng , I T bù mén zhuāng zuò méi kàn jiàn , fǎ wù zài qí dǎo bié chū shì .
Employees are using it on the sly, the IT department is turning a blind eye, and the legal department is praying nothing goes wrong.
只能在心里默默“作法”,祈祷它再一次重置。
zhī néng zài xīn lǐ mò mò zuò fǎ , qí dǎo tā zài yī cì chóng zhì .
All I can do is silently "work my magic" in my heart and pray that it resets again.
汶莱渣打银行以追思祈祷与社区服务迎接斋月
汶 莱 zhā dǎ yín háng yǐ zhuī sī qí dǎo yǔ shè qū fú wù yíng jiē 斋 yuè
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他每天祈祷好几次。
Tā měitiān qídǎo hǎojǐ cì.
He prays several times a day.
我们都跪了下来祈祷。
Wǒmen dōu guì le xiàlai qídǎo.
We all knelt down to pray.
我们全体为日本祈祷。
Wǒmen quántǐ wèi Rìběn qídǎo.
We're all praying for Japan.
今天是星期五,所以我们需要祷告。
Jīntiān shì Xīngqīwǔ, suǒyǐ wǒmen xūyào dǎogào.
It's Friday, and so we have to perform our prayers.
Character Family
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