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道 — stroke order
Watch how to write 道 (dào) stroke by stroke. 道 has 12 strokes and means “method”. It appears in common words such as 知道 (to know) and 味道 (flavor). The animation follows the correct Chinese stroke order inside a 米字格 practice grid — tap the cell or the ↺ button to replay it.
Common words with 道
The most common words that use 道 — tap any word to draw it stroke by stroke in the full tool.
知道zhīdàoto know味道wèidaoflavor難道nándàodon't tell me ...道理dàolireason王道wángdàothe Way of the King報道bàodàoreport
How 道 is written
- Radical
- 辶
- Components
- 辶 ＋ 首
- Formation
- Pictophonetic character — formed from a semantic component 辶 and a phonetic component 首 (walk).