tao
noun
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Pronunciation: /daʊ/ / /taʊ/
name
Etymology: From the Wade–Giles romanization of the Mandarin pronunciation of Chinese 道 (tao⁴).
- Alternative letter-case form of Tao: the way of nature or way to live one's life.
“The tao of Lao Tzu was a cosmic tao, inner and unwritten, a tao of Nature, while the tao of Confucius was moral and written.”
noun
Etymology: From the Wade–Giles romanization of the Mandarin pronunciation of Chinese 道 (tao⁴).
- The art or skill of doing something in harmony with the essential nature of the thing.
“the tao of sex... the tao of the heart... the tao of integuments...”
- Synonym of circuit: various administrative divisions of imperial and early Republican China.