鸣锣开道 Save Sign in to save words Traditional (Taiwan): 鳴鑼開道 míngluókāidào ㄇㄧㄥˊ ㄌㄨㄛˊ ㄎㄞ ㄉㄠˋ to beat the gong to clear the way to pave the way for sth fig. Character by character 鸣(míng)cry 锣(luó)gong 开(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