人道

Chinese

man; person; people
 
direction; way; method; road; path; principle; truth; reason; skill; Tao (of Taoism); a measure word; to say; to speak; to talk
simp. and trad.
(人道)		 人 道
anagram 道人

Pronunciation

Adjective

人道

  1. humane
  2. humanitarian

Derived terms

Noun

人道

  1. (Buddhism) humanity; human realm
  2. ethics; morality
  3. human sympathy
  4. sexual intercourse

Japanese

Etymology 1

Kanji in this term
人 道
じん
Grade: 1		 どう
Grade: 2
on’yomi

From jin (人, people, mankind) + dō (道, the way of moral conduct, moral principles, morality, truth)

Pronunciation

Noun

人道 (hiragana じんどう, rōmaji jindō)

  1. humanity
  2. sidewalk, footpath
Compounds

Etymology 2

Kanji in this term
人 道
にん
Grade: 1		 どう
Grade: 2
on’yomi

From nin (人, people, mankind) + dō (道, plane of existence)

Noun

人道 (hiragana にんどう, rōmaji nindō)

  1. (Buddhism) Life as a human: one of the six planes or domains of existence in the cycle of samsara.
See also

References

  1. ↑ 1998, NHK日本語発音アクセント辞典 (NHK Japanese Pronunciation Accent Dictionary) (in Japanese), Tōkyō: NHK, →ISBN

Korean

Hanja in this term
人道

Noun

人道 • (indo) (hangeul 인도)

  1. Hanja form? of 인도 (“humanity; sidewalk, footpath”).
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