dào dao

path, road, street; method, way

DEFINITIONS

道 dào
  • road
  • path
  • CL:條|条[tiao2],股[gu3]
  • principle
  • truth
  • morality
  • reason
  • skill
  • method
  • Dao (of Daoism)
  • to say
  • to speak
  • to talk
  • classifier for long thin things (rivers, cracks etc), barriers (walls, doors etc), questions (in an exam etc), commands, courses in a meal, steps in a process
  • (old) circuit (administrative division)

STROKES

WORDS

旁門左 páng mén zuǒ dào dissenting religious sect (idiom); heretical school of opinion; dissident group
日本黑 rì běn hēi dào Yakuza (Japanese mafia)
早知 zǎo zhī dao If I had known earlier...
明修栈,暗渡陈仓 míng xiū zhàn dào , àn dù chén cāng lit. repair the plank road by day while secretly crossing the Wei River 渭河[Wei4 He2] at Chencang (idiom, refers to a stratagem used by Liu Bang 劉邦|刘邦[Liu2 Bang1] in 206 BC against Xiang Yu 項羽|项羽[Xiang4 Yu3] of Chu); fig. to feign one thing while doing another; to cheat under cover of a diversion
明修棧,暗渡陳倉 míng xiū zhàn dào , àn dù chén cāng lit. repair the plank road by day while secretly crossing the Wei River 渭河[Wei4 He2] at Chencang (idiom, refers to a stratagem used by Liu Bang 劉邦|刘邦[Liu2 Bang1] in 206 BC against Xiang Yu 項羽|项羽[Xiang4 Yu3] of Chu); fig. to feign one thing while doing another; to cheat under cover of a diversion
有失厚 yǒu shī hòu dao to be ungenerous
yǒu dào to have attained the Way; (of a government or a ruler) enlightened; wise and just
理 yǒu dào li to make sense; reasonable
朝鲜八 cháo xiǎn bā dào the eight provinces of Yi dynasty Korea
朝鮮八 cháo xiǎn bā dào the eight provinces of Yi dynasty Korea
李政 lǐ zhèng dào Tsung-Dao Lee (1926-), Chinese American physicist, Columbia University, 1957 Nobel laureate
杜塞夫 dù sè dào fū Düsseldorf (Germany); also written 杜塞爾多夫|杜塞尔多夫[Du4 sai1 er3 duo1 fu1]
dōng dào host
主 dōng dào zhǔ host; official host (e.g. venue for games or a conference)
林荫大 lín yìn dà dào see 林陰大道|林阴大道[lin2 yin1 da4 dao4]
林蔭大 lín yìn dà dào see 林陰大道|林阴大道[lin2 yin1 da4 dao4]
林蔭 lín yìn dào boulevard; avenue; mall
林阴大 lín yīn dà dào boulevard; tree-lined avenue; CL:條|条[tiao2]
林陰大 lín yīn dà dào boulevard; tree-lined avenue; CL:條|条[tiao2]
林阴 lín yīn dào see 林蔭道|林荫道[lin2 yin4 dao4]
林陰 lín yīn dào see 林蔭道|林荫道[lin2 yin4 dao4]
架空索 jià kōng suǒ dào aerial ropeway; cable car
柯南・尔 kē nán ・ dào ěr Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (1859-1930), author of the Sherlock Holmes stories 歇洛克·福爾摩斯|歇洛克·福尔摩斯
柯南・爾 kē nán ・ dào ěr Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (1859-1930), author of the Sherlock Holmes stories 歇洛克·福爾摩斯|歇洛克·福尔摩斯
zhàn dào plank walkway constructed on the face of a cliff; (archaic) elevated passageway connecting the upper levels of adjacent towers