道

dào

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)

Radical: 辶 HSK 2 qv, n, v pictophonetic

Components & Etymology

道 decomposes into the following components:

辶 首

Semantic component: 辶; phonetic component: 首.

Words containing 道

Common multi-character words and phrases that include 道.

一道
yī dào
together
世道
shì dào
东道
dōng dào
host
乐道
lè dào
乱道
luàn dào
二道
èr dào
Erdao district of Changchun city 長春市|长春市, Jilin
产道
chǎn dào
birth canal (in obstetrics)
人道
rén dào
human sympathy
传道
chuán dào
to lecture on doctrine
伤道
shāng dào
便道
biàn dào
pavement
信道
xìn dào
signal path

Related characters (radical 辶)

Characters that share the radical 辶.

辶 边 辽 达 迁 迂 迄 迅 过 迈 迎 运 近 迓 返 迕 还 这 进 远 违 连 迟 迢

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