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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
- —東帰returning to an eastern place (esp. from Kyoto to Tokyo)
- —征東eastern expedition; military campaign to the east
- —東山eastern mountains; mountains to the east; Tōsandō (area between the Tōkaidō and Hokurikudō); Higashiyama (Kyoto district)
- —東麓eastern foot (of a mountain)
- —東限eastern limit (esp. of the distribution of a plant or animal)
- —東海East Sea (Korean name for the Sea of Japan)
- —東リTOLI Corporation (interior goods manufacturer)
- —東映Tōei
- —東雅Toga (Japanese etymological text by Arai Hakuseki, 1719)
- —東芝Toshiba Corporation; Tōshiba
- —東食Toshoku (Japanese trading company)
- —東大University of Tokyo (abbr)
- —東電Tokyo Electric Power Co., Inc.; Tokyo Denryoku; TEPCO
- —東宝Tōhou; Toho (film studio)
- —関東弁Kantō dialect
- —至東京leading to Tokyo
- —中近東Near and Middle East
- —東海道Tōkaidō (Edo-period Edo-Kyoto highway); Tōkaidō (under the ritsuryō system; one of the seven districts of ancient Japan)
- —東京着arriving in Tokyo
- —東京都Tokyo Metropolis (prefecture); Tokyo metropolitan area