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

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

paddy / rice (Oryza sativa)

pound / beat / hull / attack / disturb / stir

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

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

to mourn / to lament

Bei Dao (1949-), Chinese poet

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

to achieve the Dao / to become an immortal

garrulous

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

cover over / to envelope

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

Dao county in Yongzhou 永州, Hunan

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

to pray / prayer

feather banner or fan

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

old variant of 道

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

prayer / pray / supplication

kayak

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

Daoyuan (Sanctuary of the Dao)

big banner / feather banner or fan

Coilia ectenes

variant of 稻

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

grieved

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

canopy

stir / to pound

column / cylinder

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

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

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

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)

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