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道

dào

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dào · dou6 (Jyutping)

  1. road; path (CL:條|条[tiao2],股[gu3])
  2. (bound form) way; reason; principle
  3. (bound form) a skill; an art; a specialization
  4. (Daoism) the Way; the Dao
  5. to say (introducing a direct quotation, as in a novel)
  6. (bound form) to express; to extend (polite words)
  7. 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
  8. (old) circuit (administrative division)

Definitions: CC-CEDICT contributors · CC BY-SA 4.0 · snapshot 2026-10-09. Display: consolidated readings, linked characters and marked pinyin. Original data

Character breakdown

道

Meaning
path, road, street; method, way
Radical
辶
Strokes
12
Components
⿺辶首
Cangjie
YTHU
Four-corner
3830.6

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