dào
path
Phonosemantic compound. 辶 represents the meaning and 首 represents the sound.
Evolution

Bronze script
Early Western Zhou (~1000 BC)
Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)
Clerical script
Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)Regular script
ModernDefinitions
dào
path, road, street; method, way; road; path; CL:條|条[tiáo],股[gǔ]; 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)
Component uses
Meaning component in 1 character (1 verified)
Sound component in 1 character (1 verified)
Sources