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
世道
shì dào
东道
dōng dào
乐道
lè dào
乱道
luàn dào
二道
èr dào
产道
chǎn dào
人道
rén dào
传道
chuán dào
伤道
shāng dào
便道
biàn dào
信道
xìn dào

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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