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Chinese
God; unusual; mysterious
God; unusual; mysterious; soul; spirit; divine essence; lively; spiritual being
direction; way; method
direction; way; method; road; path; principle; truth; reason; skill; Tao (of Taoism); a measure word; to say; to speak; to talk
Su yu jesa, sindo bul iwi jung, dok i muin sinsa wi jung. Yak bi sinsa, hollyeong andeuk il po ho?[Sino-Korean]
Although there are sacrifices, the spirits do not regard this as important; they only consider the divine rituals of shamans to be important. If there were no shamanic rituals, how could the spirits ever satisfy their appetites?
Probably coined in Japan of components borrowed originally from Middle Chinese. Literally “the way of the gods”.
Attested at least since a portion of the Shoku Nihongi dated to 782.[1]
May also be encountered with the reading shindō with rendaku.[2] However, this reading is missing from some modern references,[1][3] or is indicated as an alternative reading.[4][5] The 1603 Nippo Jisho also only lists xintǒ without rendaku.[6]
^ Ishizuka, Harumichi (1976 ) 日葡辞書: パリ本 [Nippo Jisho: Paris edition / Vocabulary of the Language of Japan] (overall work in Japanese and Portuguese), Tōkyō: Bensei Publishing, visible online here in Google Books, last entry in the right-hand column
