Each entry gives the term in traditional and simplified form, its pinyin, the senses it carries in the classical corpus, the passages where it does real work, and how published translations have rendered it.
dào
Both a road and a method, and the texts lean on both senses at once. 'Knowing the Way' (知道) is not assent to a doctrine but knowing how to conduct a life; the second chapter's line about the sage practising it and the fool merely wearing it depends on that.