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The proper way to pronounce the dao of Daoism (daojiao, 道教) is with a hard "d" followed by a rapidly falling tone on the ao. This most likely sounded like a "t" to the European creators of the outdated Wade-Giles system of romanization that is still used in some quarters.

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