道
road; path (CL:條|条[tiao2],股[gu3]); (bound form) way; reason; principle; (bound form) a skill; an art; a specialization; (Daoism) the Way; the Dao; to say (introducing a direct quotation, as in a novel); (bound form) to express; to extend (polite words); 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; (old) circuit (administrative division)
12 strokes
Dict coverage rank #67 U+9053
How 道 is formed
Phono-semantic compound (形声字)
辶 (semantic, “walk”) + 首 (phonetic, shǒu)
How to remember it
way · Heisig RSH #287
首 heads + road
Keyword method from Heisig's Remembering Simplified Hanzi.
Words containing 道
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 不人道 | bù rén dào | inhuman |
| 不儿道 | bū r dào | (dialect) contracted form of 不知道[bu4 zhi1 dao4] |
| 道山学海 | dào shān xué hǎi | mountain of Dao, sea of learning (idiom); learning is as high as the mountains, as wide as… |
| 大道 | dà dào | main street; avenue |
| 人道 | rén dào | human sympathy; humanitarianism; humane; the "human way", one of the stages in the cycle o… |
| 道人 | dào rén | Taoist devotee (honorific) |
| 道县 | Dào Xiàn | Dao County or Daoxian, a county in Yongzhou City 永州市[Yong3 zhou1 Shi4], Hunan |
| 人行道 | rén xíng dào | sidewalk |
| 行人道 | xíng rén dào | (dialect) sidewalk |
| 一道 | yī dào | together |
| 国道 | guó dào | national highway |
| 水道 | shuǐ dào | watercourse (river, canal, drain etc); water route; lane (in a swimming pool) |
| 天公地道 | tiān gōng dì dào | absolutely fair and reasonable (idiom); equitable |
| 头道 | tóu dào | first time; first (round, course, coat of paint etc) |
| 心道 | xīn dào | (literary) to think to oneself |
| 道学 | dào xué | Confucian study of ethics; study of Daoism; school for Daoism in Tang and Song times; Daoi… |
| 地道 | dì dào | tunnel; causeway |
| 地道 | dì dao | authentic; genuine; proper |
| 无道 | wú dào | tyrannical; brutal (regime) |
| 道地 | dào dì | authentic; original |