道

(a, the) circuit, course, Dao, passage, path, process, road, route, track, trail, way; dharma, doctrine, method, nature, principle, truth; way(s) of, nature(s) of; (to be) headed down the road, on course, on track, on the path; fared, taken, traveled; (to) guide, instruct, lead, conduct, govern, show the way; discourse, explain, say, speak, tell [was in use as “to say” in the Zhou] (s, ed, ing). It is not a stretch to call the Dao a (or the) four-dimensional or space-time continuum, the unfolding of existence over and through time, things as strings or tracks. The Dao does not refer to the infinite field of all possibilities (“not a path suited to travel”), but to the infinity of paths, tracks or ways actually taken in reality, fact or truth.

Radical: 162+9 | First occurrence: Hexagram 09.1