1 flavor

2 smell

3 hint of

1 to know

2 to become aware of

3 also pr. [zhī dao]

1 road

2 path

3 classifier: 条 tiáo

4 classifier: 股 gǔ

5 principle

6 truth

7 morality

8 reason

9 skill

10 method

11 Dao (of Daoism)

12 to say

13 to speak

14 to talk

15 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

16 (old) circuit (administrative division)

1 don't tell me ...

2 could it be that...?

1 together

1 lit. when a man achieves the Dao, his poultry and dogs rise to Heaven (idiom)

2 fig. to ride on sb else's success

3 Once one man gets a government position, all his cronies get in too

4 Once sb has cracked the problem, every Tom, Dick and Harry can do it

1 to live miles apart (idiom)

1 one word says it all (idiom)

2 to hit the nail on the head

3 to be pithy and correct

1 to stubbornly insist on one's own ideas (idiom)

1 no use to tell others

2 let's keep this between ourselves (idiom)