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TranslingualEdit

Stroke order
Stroke order

Han characterEdit

道 (radical 162 辵+9, 12 strokes, cangjie input 卜廿竹山 (YTHU), four-corner 38306, composition ⿺辶首)

Derived charactersEdit

ReferencesEdit

  • KangXi: page 1262, character 6
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 39010
  • Dae Jaweon: page 1754, character 9
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 6, page 3864, character 1
  • Unihan data for U+9053

ChineseEdit

simp. and trad.
 道

Glyph originEdit

Historical forms of the character 道
Oracle bone script Bronze inscriptions Large seal script Small seal script

Phono-semantic compound (形聲, OC *l'uːʔ): semantic 辵 ‎(“walking”) + phonetic 𩠐. Simplified to ⻌ + 首.

EtymologyEdit

Possibly derived from 導 (OC *duːs, “to go along, to bring along, to conduct”):

  • > "to explain" > "to talk about", and
  • > "road, way".

Cognate with Proto-Hmong-Mien *kləuX ‎(“road, way”) (White Hmong kev ‎(“road”)). See also 首 (OC *hljuʔ, *hljus).

PronunciationEdit

Rime
Character 道
Reading # 1/1
Initial (聲) 定 (7)
Final (韻) 豪 (89)
Tone (調) Rising (X)
Openness (開合) Open
Division (等) I
Fanqie 徒晧切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang		 /dɑuX/
Pan
Wuyun		 /dɑuX/
Shao
Rongfen		 /dɑuX/
Edwin
Pulleyblank		 /dawX/
Li
Rong		 /dɑuX/
Wang
Li		 /dɑuX/
Bernard
Karlgren		 /dʱɑuX/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex		 dào
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 道 道
Reading # 1/2 2/2
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)		 dǎo dào
Middle
Chinese		 ‹ dawH › ‹ dawX ›
Old
Chinese		 /*lˤuʔ-s/ /*[kə.l]ˤuʔ/
English show the way way

Notes for Old Chinese notations in the Baxter-Sagart system:

* Parentheses "()" indicate uncertain presence;
* Square brackets "[]" indicate uncertain identity, e.g. *[t] as coda may in fact be *-t or *-p;
* Angle brackets "<>" indicate infix;
* Hyphen "-" indicates morpheme boundary;

* Period "." indicates syllable boundary.
Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character 道
Reading # 1/1
No. 11669
Phonetic
component		 首
Rime
group		 幽
Rime
subdivision		 1
Corresponding
MC rime		 道
Old
Chinese		 /*l'uːʔ/

DefinitionsEdit

道

  1. way, path, road
    道路  ―  dàolù  ―  road
  2. (historical) a circuit: an administrative division of late imperial China comprising 2 or more commanderies
  3. method, principle
  4. (philosophy) the Way, the Tao, the Dao: the way of nature and/or the ideal way to live one's life
  5. Short for 道教 (dàojiào, “Taoism”).
  6. Short for 道士 (dàoshi, “Taoist priest”).
  7. doctrine, teachings (of a religion)
    傳道 / 传道  ―  chuándào  ―  to preach
  8. to say, to utter
    能說會道 / 能说会道  ―  néngshuōhuìdào  ―  can talk really well [idiom]
  9. Classifier for long things.
    一道閃電 / 一道闪电  ―  yīdào shǎndiàn  ―  a lightning
    一道河  ―  yīdào hé  ―  a river
    一道縫 / 一道缝  ―  yīdào féng  ―  a crack
    一道彩虹  ―  yī dào cǎihóng  ―  a rainbow
  10. Classifier for barriers.
    一道籬笆 / 一道篱笆  ―  yīdào líbā  ―  a fence
  11. Classifier for courses in a meal. dish
    一道菜  ―  yī dào cài  ―  a dish of food
  12. Classifier for questions (in an exam).
  13. Classifier for order, proclamation.
    一道公文  ―  yī dào gōngwén  ―  a proclamation
    一道命令  ―  yī dào mìnglìng  ―  an order

CompoundsEdit

Derived terms from 道

JapaneseEdit

KanjiEdit

道

(grade 2 “Kyōiku” kanji)

  1. road; way

ReadingsEdit

CompoundsEdit

Compounds

Etymology 1Edit

Kanji in this term
道
どう
Grade: 2
on'yomi

/dau/ → /dɔː/ → /doː/

From Middle Chinese 道 ‎(dhɑ̀u, “road; way”). Compare modern Mandarin 道 ‎(dào), Cantonese 道 ‎(dou6).

PronunciationEdit

NounEdit

道 ‎(hiragana どう, romaji dō, historical hiragana だう)

  1. The Way: tao, Taoism
  2. (chiefly historical) A region of Japan consisting of multiple provinces or prefectures. Feudal Japan was divided into several dō; the only remaining dō is Hokkaidō.

Proper nounEdit

道 ‎(hiragana どう, romaji Dō, historical hiragana だう)

  1. A surname​.

Etymology 2Edit

Kanji in this term
道
ち
Grade: 2
kun'yomi

From Old Japanese.[3] May be cognate with Korean 길 (gil, “road”).

More often written as 路.

PronunciationEdit

Alternative formsEdit

SuffixEdit

道 ‎(hiragana ち, romaji -chi)

  1. (obsolete) attaches to place names, indicating a road to that place
    This usage has generally been replaced by -ji below.

Etymology 3Edit

Kanji in this term
道
じ
Grade: 2
kun'yomi

Derived as a sound shift from chi above.[3]

More often written as 路.

PronunciationEdit

Alternative formsEdit

SuffixEdit

道 ‎(hiragana じ, romaji -ji, historical hiragana ぢ)

  1. a road, a street
    山 (やま)道 (じ)、長 (なが)道 (じ)
    yama-ji, naga-ji
    a mountain road, a long road
  2. attaches to place names, indicating a road to that place
    奈良 (なら)道 (じ)
    Nara-ji
    Road to Nara
  3. attaches to a time duration, indicating a trip taking that length of time
    四日 (よっか)道 (じ)
    yokka-ji
    a trip of four days, a four-day-long trip

Etymology 4Edit

Kanji in this term
道
みち
Grade: 2
kun'yomi

Originally a compound of 御 ‎(mi, honorific prefix) +‎ 道 ‎(chi, “road, street, way”).[3] The prefix mi was in reference to the 神 ‎(kami, “god or spirit”) of roads.

PronunciationEdit

Alternative formsEdit

NounEdit

道 ‎(hiragana みち, romaji michi)

  1. a way, a street, a road, an alley, a path, a pass for local traffic
  2. a way of doing something
Usage notesEdit

This is the most common term for “road”, “street”, or “way” in modern Japanese.

Derived termsEdit
Derived terms

Proper nounEdit

道 ‎(hiragana みち, romaji Michi)

  1. A female given name
  2. A surname​.

Etymology 5Edit

Kanji in this term
道
Grade: 2
Irregular

Used as ateji in various names.

Proper nounEdit

道 ‎(hiragana おさむ, romaji Osamu)

  1. A male given name

Proper nounEdit

道 ‎(hiragana すすむ, romaji Susumu)

  1. A male given name

Proper nounEdit

道 ‎(hiragana たお, romaji Tao)

  1. A female given name

Proper nounEdit

道 ‎(hiragana ただし, romaji Tadashi)

  1. A male given name

Proper nounEdit

道 ‎(hiragana ただす, romaji Tadasu)

  1. A male given name

Proper nounEdit

道 ‎(hiragana どうざき, romaji Dōzaki)

  1. A surname​.

Proper nounEdit

道 ‎(hiragana とおる, romaji Tōru)

  1. A female given name

Proper nounEdit

道 ‎(hiragana なおし, romaji Naoshi)

  1. A male given name

Proper nounEdit

道 ‎(hiragana ふみ, romaji Fumi)

  1. A female given name

Proper nounEdit

道 ‎(hiragana まこと, romaji Makoto)

  1. A male given name

Proper nounEdit

道 ‎(hiragana みちざき, romaji Michizaki)

  1. A surname​.

Proper nounEdit

道 ‎(hiragana みちひろ, romaji Michihiro)

  1. A male given name

Proper nounEdit

道 ‎(hiragana もとい, romaji Motoi)

  1. A male given name

Proper nounEdit

道 ‎(hiragana わたる, romaji Wataru)

  1. A male given name

ReferencesEdit

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 2006, 大辞林 (Daijirin), Third Edition (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Sanseidō, ISBN 4-385-13905-9
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 1998, NHK日本語発音アクセント辞典 (NHK Japanese Pronunciation Accent Dictionary) (in Japanese), Tōkyō: NHK, ISBN 978-4-14-011112-3
  3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 1988, 国語大辞典（新装版） (Kokugo Dai Jiten, Revised Edition) (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Shogakukan

KoreanEdit

HanjaEdit

道 • ‎(do)
Eumhun:

  • Sound (hangeul): 도 (McCune-Reischauer: to, Yale: to)
  • Name (hangeul): 길()

A road

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CompoundsEdit

Derived terms

VietnameseEdit

Han characterEdit

道 (đạo, dạo, nhạo) way (to behave)

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