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

xué dào acupuncture point; acupoint
yào dào major road; thoroughfare; main road
大行其 dà xíng qí dào rampant; very popular
chǎn dào birth canal (in obstetrics)
家 dào jiā Daoist School of the Warring States Period (475-221 BC), based on the teachings of Laozi or Lao-tze 老子[Lao3 zi3] (c. 500 BC-) and Zhuangzi 庄子 (369-286 BC)
白 dào bái spoken lines in opera
mài dào McDonnell Douglas (plane company)
jiàn dào kendō (sports)
怨声载 yuàn shēng zài dào lit. cries of complaint fill the roads (idiom); complaints rise all around; discontent is openly voiced
yǒng dào walled-in path; paved pathway; canopied passageway; corridor; tunnel
喜 dào xǐ to congratulate
场 dào chǎng Taoist or Buddhist rite; abbr. for 菩提道場|菩提道场[Pu2 ti2 dao4 chang3]
教 dào jiào Taoism; Daoism (Chinese system of beliefs)
破 dào pò to expose; to reveal
gǔ dào ancient road; precepts of the antiquity
jiā dào family financial circumstances
gàn dào arterial road; main road; main watercourse
shén dào Shinto (Japanese religion)
士 wèi dào shì traditionalist; moralist; champion (of a cause)
地 dào dì authentic; original
hè dào (of yamen bailiffs etc) to walk ahead of an official, shouting at pedestrians to clear the way
大逆不 dà nì bù dào disgraceful (of behavior that is unfilial, rebellious or otherwise in grave breach of the norms of society)
tiān dào natural law; heavenly law; weather (dialect)
康庄大 kāng zhuāng dà dào broad and open road (idiom); fig. brilliant future prospects
zhàn dào plank walkway constructed on the face of a cliff; (archaic) elevated passageway connecting the upper levels of adjacent towers