(どう) (n) (1) (abbr) road; (2) way; (3) Buddhist teachings; (4) Taoism; (5) modern administrative region of Japan (Hokkaido); (6) historical administrative region of Japan (Tokaido, Tosando, etc.); (7) province (Tang-era administrative region of China); (8) province (modern administrative region of Korea) [EDICT]
(みち) (n) (1) road; street; way; path; course; route; lane; (2) distance; ways (e.g. "a long ways"); (3) the way (of proper conduct, etc.); one's way; morals; (4) teachings (esp. Confucian or Buddhist); dogma; (5) field (of medicine, etc.); subject; (6) way; method; means; (P) [EDICT]
(ち;ぢ) (n) (1) (arch) (ち only) (See 路・じ) way; road; (n-suf) (2) (usu. ぢ) way to ...; road to ... [EDICT]
(dào, ㄉㄠˋ) direction; way; method; road; path; classifier for long thin stretches, rivers, roads etc; principle; truth; morality; reason; skill; method; Dao (of Daoism); to say; to speak; to talk [CE-DICT]
基
(き) (n) (1) {chem} (See 官能基) group; (2) (See 遊離基) (free) radical; (ctr) (3) counter for installed or mounted objects (e.g. stone lanterns, gravestones) [EDICT]
(もとい) (n) (1) (arch) basis; foundation; (2) cause [EDICT]
(もと) (n) (1) (usu. 元) origin; source; (2) (esp. 基) base; basis; foundation; root; (3) (also 因, 原) cause; (4) (esp. 素) ingredient; material; (5) (元 only) (somebody's) side; (somebody's) location; (6) original cost (or capital, principal, etc.); (7) (plant) root; (tree) trunk; (8) (See 和歌) first section of a waka; (ctr) (9) (本 only) counter for blades of grass, tree trunks, etc., and for falcons (in falconry); (n) (10) handle (chopsticks, brush, etc.); grip; (P) [EDICT]