dao

Meanings

Plural: daos

Noun

• Any of various traditional Chinese swords with a curved, single-edged blade, primarily used for slashing and chopping.
• Synonym of circuit: various administrative divisions of imperial and early Republican China.
• Alternative form of dah (“Burmese knife or sword”).
• A sword and construction tool of the Naga people of India, which has a wooden hilt and grows wider from the narrow hilt to the wide, flat tip.
• Dracontomelon dao; a large tree of the family Anacardiaceae; the argus pheasant tree.
• The hard strong wood of the dao used for veneers and cabinetwork.

Name

• Alternative form of Tao: the way of nature and/or the ideal way to live one's life.

Synonyms

circuit