导 · dǎo
direct, guide, lead, conduct
Meanings & readings
Meaning & readings
direct, guide, lead, conduct
- Mandarin
- dǎo
- Cantonese
- dou6
Unihan definitions and selected character readings. Read the word to establish its pronunciation in context.
Form & structure
Writing & identity
- Unicode
- U+5BFC
- Radical
- 寸 · 41
- Strokes
- 6 · Unihan
- Residual
- 3
Source record · Unihan 17.0. Individual senses and historical claims have not yet been reviewed by zimai.
Stroke order
6 strokesModern stroke order; regional conventions can differ. Stroke medians: Make Me a Hanzi via HanziLookupJS, drawn as an even pen line.
Graphical structure
How to read these symbols
⿰ left–right · ⿱ above–below · ⿻ overlap. Dotted boxes indicate positions, not missing characters. Each symbol describes the components that follow it; nested symbols describe a component in more detail. Source codes identify alternative analyses, not a writing sequence or an etymology.
BabelStone IDS · 2025-06-27. Region tags are preserved; 〾 marks approximation and {n} identifies an unencoded source component. These describe graphical structure, not historical derivation.
Words & connections
Words using 导
Character connections
No reverse component match in this collection.
History & distinctions
Related forms
導
Unihan traditional/simplified variant properties. Conversion may depend on context.
Sources & reference
Evidence & next depth
Retained Unihan properties
- kMandarin
- dǎo
- kCantonese
- dou6
- kDefinition
- direct, guide, lead, conduct
- kTotalStrokes
- 6
- kRSUnicode
- 41.3
- kTraditionalVariant
- U+5C0E
- kTGH
- 2013:567
Readings across dictionaries
- Xiandai Hanyu · 1983
- dǎo 0219.020
- Tongyong Guifan · 2013
- dǎo 068.030
- Reading counts · XDHYPLCD
- dǎo(1403)