道
Details
- Definition: road, path, 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)
- HSK Level: 2
- Frequency Rank: 478
- Alternate Forms: 道
- Notes: POS: qv, n, v
Variants
道
- Pinyin: dào
- English Definitions: road, path, 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)
- Notes: Classifiers: 条, 股
Other transcriptions: numeric: dao4, wadegiles: tao⁴, bopomofo: ㄉㄠˋ, romatzyh: daw