道

Meaning

1. n
   road; path; street; lane; passage
2. n
   route; way
3. n
   distance; journey
4. n
   road (e.g. to victory); course
5. n
   way (of living, proper conduct, etc.); moral principles
6. n
   teachings (esp. Confucian or Buddhist); dogma
7. n
   field (e.g. of medicine); subject; speciality
8. n
   means; way; method
9. n abbreviation
   road; path; street; route
10. n
    way; set of practices; rules for conducting oneself
11. n abbreviation
    moral education
12. n
    Buddhist teachings
13. n
    Taoism
14. n
    administrative region of Japan (Hokkaido)
15. n
    administrative region of Japan (Tokaido, Tosando, etc.)
16. n
    province (administrative region of Korea)
17. n
    circuit (administrative region of China)
18. n
    province (Tang-era administrative region of China)

Example sentences

• 意志あるところには道がある。

  Where there's a will, there's a way.

• 山越えの道は狭く、しかも急勾配だった。

  The road across the mountain was narrow, and what's more, it was a steep slope.

• 道という道は川から溢れだした水で覆われていた。

  Anything like a road was covered with water that had flooded out of the river.