đạo

• (Hà Nội) IPA^(key): [ʔɗaːw˧˨ʔ]
• (Huế) IPA^(key): [ʔɗaːw˨˩ʔ]
• (Saigon) IPA^(key): [ʔɗaːw˨˩˨]

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Sino-Vietnamese word from 道 (“road; way”).

đạo

1. (formal) a code of conduct

   đạo làm con ― how to behave as a child

   đạo làm người ― humanity

   Công cha như núi Thái Sơn,
   Nghĩa mẹ như nước trong nguồn chảy ra.
   Một lòng thờ mẹ kính cha
   Cho tròn chữ hiếu mới là đạo con.

   Fathers' deeds are as mountainous as Mount Tai,
   Mothers' love is as everlasting as streaming water.
   As a child, one is duty bound to worship their mother, to respect their father.

2. religion

   đạo Thiên Chúa ― Christianity

   theo đạo ― to be religious, especially to be a Christian

3. (historical and in foreign placenames) province

   Giang Nguyên Đạo ― Gangwon province

Sino-Vietnamese word from 盜 (“to steal”).

đạo

1. (art) to rip off; to plagiarize

   đạo nhạc ― to rip off someone else's music

   đạo văn ― to rip off someone else's written piece or writing style

   đạo tranh ― to rip off someone else's painting

đạo

1. Sino-Vietnamese reading of 導

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