Quick question. Is Tao pronounced “Tay-Oh” or is it “Tow” as in “Towel”? Thanks.
tao=
dow like
dow jones industrial
dowel
etc.
It is not a t sound at all really more like a d
in the wade giles translation system, a ‘t’ is pronounced as a ‘d.’ to get a real ‘t’ sound, the wade giles system uses a ‘t’’ (with the apostrophe).
the pinyin translation system (which a lot of people seem to think is more user friendly) spells it ‘dao.’
stuart b.
Oh ok, thanks. I didn’t know it was pronounced with a D sound. Cool, I learned something new today.
knew that class in asian philosophy would come in handy one of these days.
