1. one of the Eight Trigrams 八卦 bāguà, symbolizing heaven
2. male principle
3. ☰
4. ancient Chinese compass point: 315° (northwest)

1. dry
2. dried food
3. empty; hollow
4. taken in to nominal kinship; adoptive; foster
5. futile; in vain
6. (dialect) rude; blunt
7. (dialect) to cold-shoulder

1. (bound form) way; reason; principle
2. (bound form) a skill; an art; a specialization
3. (Daoism) the Way; the Dao
4. to say (introducing a direct quotation, as in a novel)
5. (bound form) to express; to extend (polite words)
6. classifier for long thin things (rivers, cracks, shadows etc), barriers (walls, doors etc), questions (in an exam etc), commands, courses in a meal, steps in a process
7. (old) circuit (administrative division)

classifiers: 條, 股

1. (obsolete on its own in Standard Chinese) alternative form of 導 /导 (dǎo, “to direct; to guide; to lead; to conduct”)
2. alternative form of 導 /导 (dǎo, “to direct; to guide; to lead; to conduct”)