1. 道
path, road, street; method, way
The corpus record — Literary Chinese
道
dào
path, road, street; method, way
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Where it lives
- Daodejing (Wang Bi recension) 200 · 113.69/10k
- Analects (Lunyu) 90 · 56.17/10k
- Mencius 150 · 42.3/10k
- Zhuangzi, Inner Chapters 45 · 32.66/10k
What it meant — Unihan character definitions
2. دَْ
dao z (daUB) LH dou B , OCM *1t1? 'Road, way, method' [BI, Shij. ITJ Sin Sukchu SR daw (J:.*); MGZY taw (J:.) [daw]; ONW dau [<] either an endoactive noun 'the thing which is doing the conducting' (§4.5.1) derived from the following word, or the latter is a LOC general tone C derivation from 'way' (§3.5): 3~ dao m~ (dilu C ) LH dou e , oeM *lUh 'To go along, bring along, conduct' [Zuo], ~ [Meng] > 'explain' [Li] > … — [Schuessler, s.v. dao, p. 228]
In the wild
- 道 Daodejing (Wang Bi recension) 十章
- 道 Daodejing (Wang Bi recension) 十四章
- 道 Daodejing (Wang Bi recension) 十四章
- 道 Daodejing (Wang Bi recension) 十四章
- 道 Daodejing (Wang Bi recension) 十四章
- 道 Daodejing (Wang Bi recension) 十五章
6 of 485 attestations shown.
Chinese texts (Daodejing, Analects, Zhuangzi, Mencius) are public domain by age; transcriptions from Kanripo and Wikisource (CC BY-SA 4.0). Readings via Unicode Unihan (Unicode License v3).