đạo

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See also: Appendix:Variations of "dao"

Vietnamese

Pronunciation

Etymology 1

Sino-Vietnamese word from 道 (“road; way”).

Noun

đạo

  1. (formal) a code of conduct
    đạo làm con ― how to behave as a child
    đạo làm người ― humanity
    Công cha như núi Thái Sơn,
    Nghĩa mẹ như nước trong nguồn chảy ra.
    Một lòng thờ mẹ kính cha
    Cho tròn chữ hiếu mới là đạo con.
    Fathers' deeds are as mountainous as Mount Tai,
    Mothers' love is as everlasting as streaming water.
    As a child, one is duty bound to worship their mother, to respect their father.
  2. religion
    đạo Thiên Chúa ― Christianity
    theo đạo ― to be religious, especially to be a Christian
  3. (historical and in foreign placenames) province
    Giang Nguyên Đạo ― Gangwon province
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Etymology 2

Sino-Vietnamese word from 盜 (“to steal”).

Verb

đạo

  1. (art) to rip off; to plagiarize
    đạo nhạc ― to rip off someone else's music
    đạo văn ― to rip off someone else's written piece or writing style
    đạo tranh ― to rip off someone else's painting
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Etymology 3

Romanization

đạo

  1. Sino-Vietnamese reading of 導
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