Skip to content
BishuРусскийTrain

都 — all; both; entirely

all; both; entirely; even; already; at all

Pinyin
dōu · dū · Dū
Strokes
10
HSK level
HSK 1
Handwriting
recognition only

This character has more than one reading — dōu, dū, Dū — and the pronunciation depends on the word it appears in. The list below gives the syllabus reading for each word.

How to write 都: 10 strokes

Each cell adds one stroke to the previous ones, with the new stroke in red. Stroke order is not decoration: it sets the proportions of the character and makes handwriting legible to a reader. The syllabus asks you to recognise this character rather than write it by hand.

都 — 10 strokes, in writing order from left to right.

Build a printable practice sheet with 都

Words with 都 in the HSK syllabus: 6

Every word in the official 2026 syllabus that contains this character, with the level it is introduced at. Learning a character pays off through these: each one combines with the characters you already know.

  1. 都dōuall; both; entirely; even; already; at allHSK 1
  2. 全都quándōuall; without exceptionHSK 4
  3. 首都shǒudūcapitalHSK 4
  4. 大都dàdūDadu, capital of China during the Yuan Dynasty, modern day BeijingHSK 6
  5. 都市dūshìcity; metropolisHSK 6
  6. 都会dūhuìcity; metropolisHSK 7–9

Glosses come from CC-CEDICT, used under CC BY-SA 4.0, and are the dictionary’s first sense rather than a translation chosen for context.