鳴鑼開道 Save Sign in to save words Simplified: 鸣锣开道 míngluókāidào ㄇㄧㄥˊ ㄌㄨㄛˊ ㄎㄞ ㄉㄠˋ to beat the gong to clear the way to pave the way for sth fig. Character by character 鳴(míng)cry 鑼(luó)gong 開(kāi)open 道(dào)road A Chinese word or character, or English Search Sources CC-CEDICT, CC BY-SA 4.0 pinyinjs, Apache-2.0