EntryCommon
  1. reason; argument; sense; principle; basis; justification; CL:個|个[ge4]

Characters in this word

2
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road; path (CL:條|条[tiao2],股[gu3]), (bound form) way; reason; principle, (bound form) a skill; an art; a specialization, (Daoism) the Way; the Dao, to say (introducing a direct quotation, as in a novel), (bound form) to express; to extend (polite words), classifier for long thin things (rivers, cracks, shadows etc), barriers (walls, doors etc), questions (in an exam etc), commands, courses in a meal, steps in a process, (old) circuit (administrative division)

Pinyin
dào
Strokes
12
Frequency
1253 of 2500
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texture, grain (of wood), inner essence, intrinsic order, reason, logic, truth, science, natural science (esp. physics), to manage, to pay attention to, to run (affairs), to handle, to put in order, to tidy up

Pinyin
Strokes
11
Frequency
6715 of 2500