看看湯姆知不知道該做什麼。

Let's see if Tom knows what to do.

Source: Tatoeba

Sentence Composition

=1 看看 kànkan
  1. to take a look at
  2. to examine
  3. to survey
  4. (coll.) pretty soon
=1 看看 kànkàn
  1. (colloquial) pretty soon
  2. (literary) gradually
  3. gradually
  4. placed after a verb or a verb phrase to indicate a trial, interchangeable with 看一下.
  5. pretty soon
  6. to examine and survey; to see
  7. to glance at; to take a quick look at; to have a look-see; to thumb through (a book, etc.)
  8. to see the sights
  9. to visit; to call on
2 湯姆 Tāng Tom (name)
=3 zhī
  1. to know
  2. to be aware
=3 zhì
  1. (obsolete on its own in Standard Chinese) Original form of (zhì, “knowing, wisdom, intelligence”).
  2. Original form of (zhì, “knowing, wisdom, intelligence”).
4 不知 zhī
  1. not to know
  2. unaware
  3. unknowingly
  4. fig. not to admit (defeat, hardships, tiredness etc)
=5 dào
  1. (bound form) way; reason; principle
  2. (bound form) a skill; an art; a specialization
  3. (Daoism) the Way; the Dao
  4. to say (introducing a direct quotation, as in a novel)
  5. (bound form) to express; to extend (polite words)
  6. classifier for long thin things (rivers, cracks, shadows etc), barriers (walls, doors etc), questions (in an exam etc), commands, courses in a meal, steps in a process
  7. (old) circuit (administrative division)

classifiers: ,

=5 dǎo
  1. (obsolete on its own in Standard Chinese) alternative form of / (dǎo, “to direct; to guide; to lead; to conduct”)
  2. alternative form of / (dǎo, “to direct; to guide; to lead; to conduct”)
6 gāi
  1. should
  2. ought to
  3. probably
  4. must be
  5. to deserve
  6. to owe
  7. to be sb's turn to do sth
  8. that
  9. the above-mentioned
7 做什麼 zuòshénme
  1. (dialectal) why; what for
  2. what to do
  3. why; what for