当道 dāngdào in the middle of the road Definitions Defs Origin Strokes Stroke Words Sentences Sents 当道 當道 dāngdào in the middle of the road the center or middle of a road to hold power to hold the reins of government; to be in power; to predominate or be in vogue, often used with a negative connotation high official (literary) a high-ranking official who holds power, usually used in a negative sense to block the way to be in the way or stand in the middle of the road to obstruct passage Frequency Movie subtitles 0.300 per million appears in 0% of films Written text 1.18 per million Sources Frequency data SUBTLEX-CHBCC Corpus (BLCU)
当道 當道 dāngdào in the middle of the road the center or middle of a road to hold power to hold the reins of government; to be in power; to predominate or be in vogue, often used with a negative connotation high official (literary) a high-ranking official who holds power, usually used in a negative sense to block the way to be in the way or stand in the middle of the road to obstruct passage Frequency Movie subtitles 0.300 per million appears in 0% of films Written text 1.18 per million Sources Frequency data SUBTLEX-CHBCC Corpus (BLCU)