王道
wáng dào
Pinyin
Definition
王道
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- the Way of the King
- statecraft
- benevolent rule
- virtuous as opposed to the Way of Hegemon 霸道
Character Decomposition
Idioms (20)
一人得道,鸡犬升天
- 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
一语道破
- 1 one word says it all (idiom)
- 2 to hit the nail on the head
- 3 to be pithy and correct
不足为外人道
- 1 no use to tell others
- 2 let's keep this between ourselves (idiom)
仁义道德
- 1 compassion, duty, propriety and integrity (idiom); all the traditional virtues
- 2 mainly used sarcastically, to mean hypocritical
以其人之道,还治其人之身
- 1 to use an opponent's own methods to obtain retribution (idiom, from Song dynasty neo-Confucianist Zhu Xi 朱熹); to get revenge by playing sb back at his own game
- 2 to give sb a taste of his own medicine