road / path / CL:條|条[tiao2],股[gu3] / 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)

= + : The chief and Don Quixote decided to follow the path of the Dao in the aorta's bathroom. They wear gladiator sandals and meditate sitting on the floor of the bathroom, envisioning the path to enlightment.

道 character breakdown

to walk (side part of split character)

Chantal Chicken tries out her new gladiator sandals in the observatory's bathroom.
head / chief / first (occasion, thing etc) / classifier for poems, songs etc

= + : In the outhouse, the chief lends his piece pipe to Sherlock Holmes. Sherlock smokes some weed in the pipe and looks at himself in a hand mirror, thinking that he's uber cool and that he'd pass as a quite formidable chief himself.

Characters with 道 as component

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

= + : Don Quixote brought a ghetto blaster to the aorta and is break dancing next to the house fire. The snake, who acts as director, thinks "not bad" and shows her approval with her body, which forms a "thumbs up" silhouette.

Words with 道

one word says it all (idiom) / to hit the nail on the head / to be pithy and correct
to stay on track / to proceed smoothly
(dialect) contracted form of 不知道[bu4 zhi1 dao4]
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
to stick to one's ways / to cling to one's course
(bird species of China) meadow bunting (Emberiza cioides)

Sentences with 道

nán
dào
nǐ
shuo̅
le
bù
suàn
ma