失道

Chinese

		to lose; to miss; to fail	direction; way; method direction; way; method; road; path; principle; truth; reason; skill; Tao (of Taoism); a measure word; to say; to speak; to talk
trad. (失道)		失	道
simp. ^#(失道)		失	道

Old Chinese
(Baxter–Sagart): /*l̥i[t] [kə.l]ˤuʔ/

(Zhengzhang): /*hliɡ l'uːʔ/

Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	失	道
Reading #	1/1	2/2
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	shī	dào
Middle Chinese	‹ syit ›	‹ daw^X ›
Old Chinese	/*l̥i[t]/	/*[kə.l]ˁuʔ/
English	lose	way
Notes for Old Chinese notations in the Baxter–Sagart system: * Parentheses "()" indicate uncertain presence; * Square brackets "[]" indicate uncertain identity, e.g. [t] as coda may in fact be -t or -p; Angle brackets "<>" indicate infix; * Hyphen "-" indicates morpheme boundary; * Period "." indicates syllable boundary.

失道

(literary) to lose one's way; to get lost
(literary) to lose the proper course; to lose the right path
- 得道者多助，失道者寡助。 [Classical Chinese, trad. and simp.]
  From: Mencius, c. 4^th century BCE
  Dédào zhě duōzhù, shīdào zhě guǎzhù. [Pinyin]
  He who finds the proper course has many to assist him. He who loses the proper course has few to assist him.

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