道

道 in English

dào noun, measure word HSK 4: road / path (CL:條|条[tiao2],股[gu3]) / (bound form) way / reason / principle / (bound form) a skill / an art / a specialization / (Daoism) the Way / the Dao / to say (introducing a direct quotation, as in a novel) / (bound form) to express / to extend (polite words) / 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 / (old) circuit (administrative division)

Measure word

条 tiáo strip; item; article; clause (of law or treaty); classifier for long thin things (ribbon, river, road, trousers etc) attested
股 gǔ thigh; part of a whole; portion of a sum; (finance) stock; share; strand of a thread; low-level administrative unit... attested

Stroke order

Le caractère 道 tracé avec le numéro de chaque trait à son point de départ — Numbered strokes

Stroke-by-stroke animation of the character 道

Stroke data from Make Me a Hanzi, derived from the Arphic PL fonts under the Arphic Public License.

How it used to be written

Bronze script 西周早期
Clerical script 東漢
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Forms, sources and dates: the 字形演變 database of 小學堂, Academia Sinica, public domain (CC0).

Examples

"下次。"他说道。

"Next time," he said.
“以前我们没在哪儿见过吗？”学生问道。

"Haven't we met somewhere before?" asked the student.
“你太好了。”Willie回答道。

"That's very nice of you," Willie answered.
“你对市长选举怎么看？”“我不知道。”

"What do you think of the election for mayor?" "I don't know."
“你说得太多了，”他说道。

"You talk too much," he said.
“我该做什么呢？”我自言自语道。

"What shall I do?" I said to myself.

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