PINYIN

dào

DEFINITION
  • direction
  • way
  • 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
EXAMPLE
道理 dào li
reason / argument / sense / principle / basis / justification