lit. devil's gate, crooked path (idiom); corrupt practices; crooked methods; dishonesty
trad. 邪門歪道
Also written 邪門歪道【xié mén wāi dào】
Characters in this word
4邪
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old variant of 邪[xie2]
- Pinyin
- xié
- Traditional
- 衺
- Strokes
- 6
- Frequency
- 9302 of 2500
门
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surname Men
- Pinyin
- Mén
- Traditional
- 門
- Strokes
- 3
- Frequency
- 909 of 2500
歪
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askew, at a crooked angle, devious, noxious, (coll.) to lie on one's side
- Pinyin
- wāi
- Strokes
- 9
- Frequency
- 10919 of 2500
道
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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