Chinese concept

The answer

TAO

3 letters. See every clue for this answer on the TAO answer page.

Used 6 times across 5 distinct years; most recently in 2006; first recorded in 1997. It appears in 2 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.

Other answers for this clue

The same clue has also been answered these ways in the xd corpus. Answers inside this collection link to their own answer page.

• YIN (2 uses in xd)

Other clues for TAO

Every other clue in this collection answered by TAO, most used first.

• Eastern "way" - used 173 times, most recently in 2026
• Chinese "way" - used 94 times, most recently in 2026
• Eastern path - used 60 times, most recently in 2026
• "___ Te Ching" - used 50 times, most recently in 2026
• Lao-tzu's "way" - used 48 times, most recently in 2026
• Confucian path - used 44 times, most recently in 2026
• Chinese philosophy - used 36 times, most recently in 2025
• Chinese principle - used 36 times, most recently in 2026
• "The ___ of Pooh" - used 36 times, most recently in 2026
• Confucian ideal - used 29 times, most recently in 2025
• Way of the East - used 27 times, most recently in 2023
• Eastern ideal - used 26 times, most recently in 2025
• Confucian principle - used 24 times, most recently in 2026
• "The Way" - used 24 times, most recently in 2025
• Confucian "way" - used 18 times, most recently in 2026
• Eastern philosophy - used 18 times, most recently in 2026
• Chinese "path" - used 17 times, most recently in 2024
• Concept in Chinese philosophy - used 17 times, most recently in 2025
• Eastern principle - used 16 times, most recently in 2021
• Lao-tzu principle - used 16 times, most recently in 2025
• The way, in China - used 15 times, most recently in 2023
• Chinese truth - used 13 times, most recently in 2008
• Concept in East Asian philosophy - used 13 times, most recently in 2025
• Chinese ideal - used 12 times, most recently in 2025
• Confucian concept - used 11 times, most recently in 2026
• Lao-tzu's philosophy - used 11 times, most recently in 2017
• Truth, in Chinese philosophy. - used 11 times, most recently in 1962
• Confucian philosophy - used 10 times, most recently in 2026
• "Path" of Chinese philosophy - used 10 times, most recently in 2026
• Philippine peasant. - used 10 times, most recently in 1977
• Chinese word of enlightenment - used 9 times, most recently in 2026
• Natural order of the universe - used 9 times, most recently in 2024
• "The ___ of Pooh" (Benjamin Hoff book) - used 9 times, most recently in 2024
• The way, in Chinese philosophy - used 9 times, most recently in 2025
• Eastern belief - used 8 times, most recently in 2022
• Lao-Tse's way - used 8 times, most recently in 2015
• Way of Lao-tzu - used 8 times, most recently in 2014
• An ideal, in Chinese philosophy - used 7 times, most recently in 2016
• "Chuang Tzu" principle - used 7 times, most recently in 2011
• Concept embodying yin and yang - used 7 times, most recently in 2018
• Confucian truth - used 7 times, most recently in 2023
• Asian way - used 6 times, most recently in 2024
• Benjamin Hoff's "The ___ of Pooh" - used 6 times, most recently in 2025
• Chinese idea - used 6 times, most recently in 2015
• Chinese philosophical principle - used 6 times, most recently in 2022
• Literally, the "way" - used 6 times, most recently in 2012
• "The way," to Lao-tzu - used 6 times, most recently in 2021

Related clues

Clues in this collection of the same answer length that share a word with this clue, or match its answer pattern when no word is shared. Most used first.

• Chinese chairman - MAO, used 121 times
• Chinese tea - CHA, used 100 times
• General on Chinese menus - TSO, used 77 times
• Chinese dynasty - HAN, used 70 times
• Chinese pagoda - TAA, used 70 times
• General on a Chinese menu - TSO, used 64 times

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