dǎo
direct, lead
Simplified form of 導. Phonosemantic compound. 寸 represents the meaning and 道 represents the sound.
Components
Evolution

Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)
Clerical script
Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)
Clerical script
Wu (Three Kingdoms: 222-280 AD)Traditional script
ModernSimplified script
ModernDefinitions
Statistics
HSK level 3
Appears in 49.4794% of movies
805th most common character in movies
343rd most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 6 |
Traditional | |
Unicode | U+5BFC |
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