Confucian philosophy

The answer

TAO

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

Used 10 times across 6 distinct years; most recently in 2026; first recorded in 2018. It appears in 4 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.

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
• "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 concept - used 6 times, most recently in 2006
• 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

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