to (a place) / until (a time) / up to / to go / to arrive / (verb complement denoting completion or result of an action)

knife / blade / single-edged sword / cutlass / CL: 把 / (slang) dollar (loanword) / classifier for sets of one hundred sheets (of paper) / classifier for knife cuts or stabs

to fall / to collapse / to lie horizontally / to overthrow / to fail / to go bankrupt / to change (trains or buses) / to move around / to resell at a profit

to place upside down / to invert / to pour / to throw out / to move backwards / however / actually / as a matter of fact / contrary to expectation

road / path / CL: 條｜条, 股 / 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 / (old) circuit (administrative division)

variant of 島｜岛

island / CL: 個｜个, 座

to transmit / to lead / to guide / to conduct / to direct

surname Dao

paddy / rice (Oryza sativa)

to steal / to rob / to plunder / thief / bandit / robber

Buddha's teaching / Buddhist monk's apparel, staff etc / (Daoism) magic weapon / talisman / fig. specially effective device / magic wand

to pound / to beat / to hull / to attack / to disturb / to stir

profound theory (in Daoism and Buddhism) / mysterious principles

Laozi or Lao-tze (c. 500 BC), Chinese philosopher, the founder of Taoism / the sacred book of Daoism, 道德經｜道德经 by Laozi

to mourn / to lament

same as 引導｜引导 / Dao Yin, Daoist exercises involving breathing, stretching and self-massage

garrulous

the Book of Dao by Laozi or Lao-Tze, the sacred text of Daoism

(slang, coined c. 2017, contrasted with 佛系) Dao-type, a type of person who has traits associated with a Daoist approach to life, such as being active, optimistic, earthy and forthright

Black Tortoise (the seven mansions of the north sky) / (in Daoism) God of the north sky

various sages / refers to the classical schools of thought, e.g. Confucianism 儒 represented by Confucius 孔子 and Mencius 孟子, Daoism 道 by Laozi 老子 and Zhuangzi 莊子｜庄子, Mohism 墨 by Mozi 墨子, Legalism 法 by Sunzi 孫子｜孙子 and Han Feizi 韓非子｜韩非子, and numerous others

Wang Dao (276-339), powerful official of Jin dynasty and brother of general Wang Dun 王敦, regent of Jin from 325

to devote oneself to spiritual development (esp. Buddhism or Daoism) / to devote oneself to perfecting one's art or craft

to achieve the Dao / to become an immortal

the Moon (esp. in Daoism)

Bei Dao (1949-), Chinese poet

Dao county in Yongzhou 永州, Hunan

(martial arts) wind-and-fire wheel, weapon used in hand-to-hand fighting / (Daoism) a magical pair of wheels on which one can stand to ride at great speed, used by Nezha 哪吒 / (fig.) never-ending treadmill

to tread on / to trample / to stamp / to fulfill / Taiwan pr. [dao4]

deuterium 2H / heavy hydrogen, isotope of hydrogen having 1 neutron in its nucleus, so atomic weight 2

cover over / to envelope

Taoism / Daoism (Chinese system of beliefs)

mystery within a mystery / the mysteries of the Dao according to Laozi 老子

Huangting Jing, one of the primary scriptures of Daoism

Laozi or Lao-tze (c. 500 BC), Chinese philosopher, the founder of Taoism / the sacred book of Daoism, 道德經｜道德经 by Laozi

in Daoism, astral wind on which immortals may ride / strong wind

the Three Religions (Daoism, Confucianism, Buddhism) and Nine Schools (Confucians, Daoists, Yin-Yang, Legalists, Logicians, Mohists, Political Strategists, Eclectics, Agriculturists) / fig. people from all trades (often derog.)

to practice Daoism

(coll.) to reel in (string, yarn etc) by pulling hand over hand or by coiling / to step along / to look into / to pursue (a matter)

grieved

big banner / feather banner or fan

three immortal souls and seven mortal forms in Daoism, contrasting the spiritual and carnal side of man

Confucian study of ethics / study of Daoism / school for Daoism in Tang and Song times / Daoist magic / another name for 理學｜理学, rational learning of Song dynasty neo-Confucianism

levitation (of Daoist immortal) / to become as light as a feather and ascend to heaven / (in Daoism) to become immortal / to die / of winged insects, to emerge from the cocoon in adult form / eclosion

"knife" radical in Chinese characters (Kangxi radical 18) / see also 立刀旁 / see also 側刀旁｜侧刀旁

lit. when a man achieves the Dao, his poultry and dogs rise to Heaven (idiom) / fig. to ride on sb else's success / Once one man gets a government position, all his cronies get in too / Once sb has cracked the problem, every Tom, Dick and Harry can do it

variant of 島｜岛, island / used as second component of Japanese names with phonetic value -shima or -jima

Star God of Rank and Affluence (Daoism)

the Three Doctrines (Daoism, Confucianism, Buddhism)

progress seems like regress (the Book of Dao 道德經｜道德经, Chpt. 41)

kayak

canopy

prayer / pray / supplication

Laozi and Zhuangzi (or Lao-tze and Chuang-tze), the founders of Daoism

feather banner or fan

Coilia ectenes

to pray / prayer

old variant of 道

Daoyuan (Sanctuary of the Dao)

stir / to pound

column / cylinder

variant of 稻

a Daoist / a follower of Daoism

three immortal souls in Daoism, representing spirit and intellect

variant of 島｜岛, island / used in Japanese names with reading -shima or -jima

Wang Dun (266-324), powerful general of Jin dynasty and brother of civil official Wang Dao 王導｜王导, subsequently rebellious warlord 322-324

various sages and ten schools of thought / refers to the classical schools of thought, e.g. Confucianism 儒 represented by Confucius 孔子 and Mencius 孟子, Daoism 道 by Laozi 老子 and Zhuangzi 莊子｜庄子, Mohism 墨 by Mozi 墨子, Legalism 法 by Sunzi 孫子｜孙子 and Han Feizi 韓非子｜韩非子, and numerous others

entering the Way, you seem to coil back (Laozi 老子, the Book of Dao 道德經｜道德经, Chap. 14) / progress in the Dao can seem illusory

mountain of Dao, sea of learning (idiom); learning is as high as the mountains, as wide as the seas / ars longa, vita brevis

the ideal is to be like water (which benefits all living things and does not struggle against them) (quotation from the "Book of Dao" 道德經｜道德经)

seven mortal forms in Daoism, representing carnal life and desires / contrasted with 三魂 three immortal souls

the three gods in charge of heaven, earth and water (Daoism)

Tsung-Dao Lee (1926-), Chinese American physicist, Columbia University, 1957 Nobel laureate