(chéng dù) - degree, extent, level in Mandarin
chéngdùTraditional: 程度
Translation
degree, extent, level
Word origin
A compound of two measure words: 程 (chéng, a measured course or standard) and 度 (dù, a degree or extent).
- Origin
- compound
- Root
- 程 (chéng, measured course) + 度 (dù, degree)
Stroke order
程
度
Examples
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I do not know what his level of Chinese is like.
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The seriousness of this affair went beyond anything we imagined.
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To a certain extent, he is right.
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The students vary widely in level.
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She was tired to the point of being unable to walk.
程度 (chéng dù) is how far along a scale something sits. It covers a learner's level in a language, the severity of an illness, and the extent of the damage after a storm.
Two patterns carry most of its weight. 在某种程度上 is the standard rendering of to some extent, and 到...的程度 marks the point something reached, as in 累到不能走路的程度.
The English word degree is an adverbial in phrases like to a large degree, and that tempts learners to drop 程度 in front of a verb. It will not go there: it is a noun through and through, so it needs 在 and 上 around it, or a possessive 的 in front of it.
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