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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
- —東半the eastern half
- —東面facing the east; east face; east side; the east
- —東門eastern gate
- —東夷warrior from the eastern parts of Japan; eastern barbarians; people east of China (from the perspective of China)
- —東証Tokyo Stock Exchange
- —東壁east wall; east face (of a mountain)
- —東密esoteric Buddhism of the Japanese Shingon sect
- —東縁eastern edge; east margin
- —東瀛the pacific side of Japan; eastern sea; of or about Japan
- —日東Japan
- —東晋Eastern Jin dynasty (of China; 317-420 CE); Eastern Chin dynasty
- —東周Eastern Zhou dynasty (of China; 771-256 BCE); Eastern Chou dynasty
- —東漢Eastern Han dynasty (of China; 25-220 CE); Later Han dynasty
- —東学Tonghak (19th century Korean religious movement)
- —東名Tokyo and Nagoya
- —最東easternmost
- —東流flowing east (e.g. of a river)
- —東魏Eastern Wei dynasty (of China; 534-550)
- —東露Asian Russia
- —帰東returning to the East