chuán dǎo zhī guān
Also rendered: office of transportation (Common, and says nothing about 變化) · office of transmission (傳 only)
Reviewed · 2026-09
At a glance
The large intestine’s office. What issues from it is 變化 — transformation, not merely transport: the residue is altered on the way through, which is why the office is named for conducting rather than for carrying. The reading to guard is 道 as dǎo rather than dào: the large intestine conducts, it does not teach.
Passages where the term does real work, with the original, pinyin and English on the same line.
Every rendering below is a decision about which reader is being addressed. There is no neutral option.
| Common English | office of transportation / the transporter | Standard. Transportation implies goods moved intact. |
| This site | office of conveyance | 變化 stands in the same breath, so the word chosen must leave room for the residue being altered on the way; conveyance carries and conducts without promising the cargo arrives as it left. |
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