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東 kanji
east
- JLPT level
- N5 (unofficial)
- First appears in
- N5 vocabulary
- Strokes
- 8
- School grade
- Grade 2 (elementary school)
On readings
トウ
Kun readings
ひがし
Words with 東
LevelWord & meaningActions
- —東岸沿いにalong the east coast; along the eastern seashore
- —東南アジアSoutheast Asia
- —米東部時間Eastern Standard Time (US)
- —関東大震災Great Kanto earthquake (1923)
- —東証第一部First Section of the Tokyo Stock Exchange
- —大東亜戦争Greater East Asian War (1941-1945); Pacific War
- —東方正教会Eastern Orthodox Church
- —東部縞栗鼠eastern chipmunk (Tamias striatus)
- —大東大蝙蝠Daito flying fox (Pteropus dasymallus daitoensis)
- —東京大空襲Great Tokyo Air Raid (March 10, 1945)
- —東南海地震Tonankai earthquake of 1944
- —安東都護府Protectorate General to Pacify the East (Tang-period Chinese office established in Pyongyang in 668 CE)
- —東洋雛蝙蝠Asian particolored bat (Vespertilio sinensis)
- —東学党の乱Tonghak Rebellion (of Korea; 1894)
- —東部標準時Eastern Standard Time; EST
- —北東アジアNortheast Asia
- —東京ドームTokyo Dome
- —毛沢東思想Mao Zedong thought; Maoist thought; Maoism
- —征東大将軍commander-in-chief of the expeditionary force against the eastern barbarians (940-1335)
- —毛沢東主義Maoism