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CHINESE DICTIONARY ENTRY

天道

tiāndào

natural law

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DEFINITIONS & USAGE

Meaning and common use

01

natural law

02

heavenly law

03

weather (dialect)

REAL CORPUS EXAMPLES

How 天道 actually appears in real sentences.

These sentences are copied from the Tatoeba corpus, so they are real usage rather than generated text. 天道 appears in 3 of the 89,190 sentences we searched. Sentences without a published English translation are shown in Chinese only.

顺应天道必可胜利而长存,违逆天理将失败而遭灭亡。shùn yìng tiān dào bì kě shèng lì ér cháng cún, wéi nì tiān lǐ jiāng shī bài ér zāo miè wáng。

No published English translation for this sentence.

圣人将自己隐藏於天道之中,所以没有什麽东西能伤害他。shèng rén jiāng zì jǐ yǐn cáng yú tiān dào zhī zhōng, suǒ yǐ méi yǒu shén mó dōng xī néng shāng hài tā。

No published English translation for this sentence.

天道有真假之分,真的本就自然与天相应;假的虽是人为添加的巧思,看起来也与真的毫无二致。tiān dào yǒu zhēn jiǎ zhī fēn, zhēn de běn jiù zì rán yǔ tiān xiāng yìng; jiǎ de suī shì rén wéi tiān jiā de qiǎo sī, kàn qǐ lái yě yǔ zhēn de háo wú èr zhì。

No published English translation for this sentence.

COMMON COLLOCATIONS

Words that keep company with 天道.

Counted from the same corpus: the word that most often comes directly before, and directly after, 天道.

Directly before

  • 顺应天道1
  • 於天道1

Directly after

  • 天道必1
  • 天道之中1
  • 天道有1
ABOUT THIS ENTRY

Where this entry comes from

The HSK level, part of speech, and pronunciation come from the HSK 3.1 vocabulary syllabus. The English definitions come from CC-CEDICT. Corpus sentences, collocations, and the frequency figure come from the Tatoeba Chinese sentence export and are counted rather than written, so nothing on this page is invented. Usage notes and the hand-written examples that appear higher up exist only for a handful of entries.

Definitions from CC-CEDICT, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0. Vocabulary levels and parts of speech from the HSK 3.1 syllabus. This compiled dictionary is shared under the same CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.

COMMON QUESTIONS

About 天道

What does 天道 mean in Chinese?

天道 (tiāndào) means natural law.

How do you pronounce 天道?

天道 is pronounced tiāndào.

Is 天道 an HSK word?

天道 is on the list of the HSK 3.1 vocabulary syllabus.

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