Read Edit View history 當道 dāngdào in the middle of the road Origin Definitions Defs 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)