导航 dǎoháng to navigate
(literally and fig.) to navigate
How to remember 导航: 导 guide + 航 vessel = to navigate.
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How it is used
- Navigation - both literal and digital: 用手机导航 (yòng shǒujī dǎoháng) navigate with your phone; 卫星导航 (wèixīng dǎoháng) satellite navigation.
- Everyday word for GPS/route guidance, also for ships and aircraft; on websites it's the nav menu (导航栏).
- Verb or noun with no register issues.