道
dào
Pinyin

Definition

道
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dào
  1. road
  2. path
  3. CL:條|条[tiáo],股[gǔ]
  4. principle
  5. truth
  6. morality
  7. reason
  8. skill
  9. method
  10. Dao (of Daoism)
  11. to say
  12. to speak
  13. to talk
  14. 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
  15. (old) circuit (administrative division)

Character Decomposition

Related Words (20)

味道
wèi dao
  1. 1 flavor
  2. 2 smell
  3. 3 hint of
知道
zhī dào
  1. 1 to know
  2. 2 to become aware of
  3. 3 also pr. [zhī dao]
世道
shì dào
  1. 1 the ways of the world
  2. 2 the morals of the time
公道
gōng dào
  1. 1 justice
  2. 2 fairness
  3. 3 public highway
出道
chū dào
  1. 1 to make one's first public performance (of an entertainer etc)
  2. 2 to start one's career

Idioms (20)

一人得道，鸡犬升天
yī rén dé dào , jī quǎn shēng tiān
  1. 1 lit. when a man achieves the Dao, his poultry and dogs rise to Heaven (idiom)
  2. 2 fig. to ride on sb else's success
  3. 3 Once one man gets a government position, all his cronies get in too
  4. 4 Once sb has cracked the problem, every Tom, Dick and Harry can do it
一语道破
yī yǔ dào pò
  1. 1 one word says it all (idiom)
  2. 2 to hit the nail on the head
  3. 3 to be pithy and correct
不足为外人道
bù zú wéi wài rén dào
  1. 1 no use to tell others
  2. 2 let's keep this between ourselves (idiom)
仁义道德
rén yì dào dé
  1. 1 compassion, duty, propriety and integrity (idiom); all the traditional virtues
  2. 2 mainly used sarcastically, to mean hypocritical
以其人之道，还治其人之身
yǐ qí rén zhī dào , huán zhì qí rén zhī shēn
  1. 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. 2 to give sb a taste of his own medicine

Sample Sentences

你说得很有道理，但是这个提案成本太高了。
nǐ shuō de hěn yǒu dàoli ，dànshì zhège tíàn chéngběn tài gāo le 。
What you say makes a lot of sense, but the proposal costs too high.
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你说得很有道理，但是我不这么认为。
nǐ shuō de hěn yǒu dàoli ，dànshì wǒ bù zhème rènwéi 。
You make a lot of sense, but I don’t think it this way.
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你知道中国最有名的人是谁？提起此人，人人皆晓，处处闻名。
nǐ zhīdào Zhōngguó zuì yǒumíng de rén shì shéi ？tíqǐ cǐ rén ，rénrén jiē xiǎo ，chùchù wénmíng 。
Do you know who the most famous person in China is? His name is so well-known that everyone have heard about him.
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掌柜的生气了，常常骂他。他只是笑嘻嘻地赔小心道千字比十字只多一小撇不是差不多吗？”
zhǎngguì de shēngqì le ，chángcháng mà tā 。tā zhǐshì xiàoxīxī de péixiǎoxīn dào qiān zì bǐ shí zì zhǐ duō yī xiǎo piě búshi chàbuduō ma ？”
This infuriated the bank manager and he would often reprimand him. Mr. Chabuduo's response to these incidents was always to reply with a smirk: "The number for 1,000 “千” differed from the number for 10 “十” by only one simple stroke - isn't that close enough?"
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老板，你说得很有道理。
lǎobǎn ，nǐ shuō de hěn yǒu dàoli 。
Boss, that makes a lot of sense.
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你说得很有道理，我也这么认为。
nǐ shuō de hěn yǒu dàoli ，wǒ yě zhème rènwéi 。
That makes a lot of sense. I agree with you.
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不知道啊，今年很倒霉。
bù zhīdào a ，jīnnián hěn dǎoméi 。
I have no idea. I'm in bad luck this year.
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一打啤酒对俄罗斯人来说只是小意思，这是大家都知道的常识。但是你知道吗？俄罗斯人喝啤酒，有一个潜规则，他们如果找你喝酒，绝对不能拒绝。
yīdá píjiǔ duì Éluósī rén láishuō zhǐshì xiǎoyìsi ，zhèshì dàjiā dōu zhīdào de chángshí 。dànshì nǐ zhīdào ma ？Éluósī rén hē píjiǔ ，yǒu yīgē qiánguīzé ，tāmen rúguǒ zhǎo nǐ hējiǔ ，juéduì bùnéng jùjué 。
A dozen of beers is a piece of cake for Russian, which is common sense that everyone knows. But you know that? Russians have a hidden rule when it comes to drinking beers, that is, if they invite you for a drink, you can’t say no.
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是这样的，我想把公司的产品资料给您参考，不知道您这周方不方便？我想去拜访贵公司。
shì zhèyàng de ，wǒ xiǎng bǎ gōngsī de chǎnpǐn zīliào gěi nín cānkǎo ，bù zhīdào nín zhè zhōu fāngbùfāngbiàn ？wǒ xiǎng qù bàifǎng guì gōngsī 。
The thing is, I would like to give you some information about out products for your reference. Are you available this week? I would like to pay a visit to your company.
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道
dào
pathway
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