卫道
wèi​dào

to defend traditional values

  • created sense approved 卫道/衛道 · wèi​dào · to defend traditional values — "Initial import from upstream dictionary"

    卫道 / 衛道

    wèi​dào

    to defend traditional values

    to defend established moral principles or a traditional school of thought, specifically the orthodox Confucian tradition in historical contexts

    卫, 道

    卫 (literal) → 卫/衛 · wèi · to guard 道 (literal) → 道 · dào · principle

    Changed: simplified, traditional, gloss, definition, pinyin, variant pinyin, variants, separable parts, decomposition

    created sense