Kanji1 / 15
導 kanji
guidance, leading, conduct, usher
- JLPT level
- N2 (unofficial)
- First appears in
- N3 vocabulary
- Strokes
- 15
- School grade
- Grade 5 (elementary school)
On readings
ドウ
Kun readings
みちびく
Words with 導
LevelWord & meaningActions
- —導電conduction
- —補導guidance; direction; leading; guidance of juveniles to prevent delinquency; taking into custody (esp. of minors) for their protection
- —化導influencing (a person) for good
- —導管conduit; pipe; duct; vessel
- —嚮導guidance; leading (the way); taking point; conducting; leader; guide; guide
- —訓導instruction; guidance; tutelage; licensed elementary school teacher
- —唱導leading (movement, revolution, etc.); guiding; instructing in Buddhism; converting (someone) to Buddhism; advocacy
- —導水water conveyance
- —導師officiating priest; presiding priest at a ceremony; religious teacher; highly-ranked priest; guru; instructor (yoga, etc.)
- —導線conducting wire; line of flow (of people, objects, etc.)
- —導因incentive; inducement
- —領導leadership; guidance
- —誤導misleading (someone); misdirecting; leading astray; manipulation (e.g. of public opinion)
- —導引guidance; showing the way; massage; tao yin; Taoist Neigong; Taoist exercises
- —導手conductor (class field theory)
- —電導electrical conduction
- —導尿urethral catheterization (catheterisation); urine extraction
- —導坑pilot tunnel
- —骨導bone conduction
- —気導air conduction (of sound)