通道侗族自治县

Tongdao Dong Autonomous County in Huaihua 懷化|怀化[Huai2 hua4], Hunan

to go through / to know well / (suffix) expert / to connect / to communicate / open / to clear / classifier for letters, telegrams, phone calls etc

classifier for an activity, taken in its entirety (tirade of abuse, stint of music playing, bout of drinking etc)

Tongdao Dong autonomous county in Huaihua 懷化|怀化[Huai2 hua4], Hunan

(communications) channel / thoroughfare / passage

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)

Dong ethnic group (aka Kam people)

ignorant

Kam people, who live mostly in southern China and in the north of Laos and Vietnam

race / nationality / ethnicity / clan / by extension, social group (e.g. office workers 上班族)

self / oneself / from / since / naturally / surely

autonomy

to rule / to govern / to manage / to control / to harness (a river) / to treat (a disease) / to wipe out (a pest) / to punish / to research

autonomous county

county