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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
- —東京発departing Tokyo
- —東京湾Tokyo Bay
- —東西屋town crier
- —東天紅early morning crowing of a rooster; brown domestic fowl (chicken breed)
- —東南亜Southeast Asia
- —東北人person from Tōhoku; Tōhokuite
- —東洋人Asian person; Oriental
- —東洋通Orientalist
- —東洋風Oriental
- —南南東south-southeast; south-south-east
- —東洋学Oriental studies; Orientalism
- —東宮職Imperial Household Agency employee assigned to the household of the Crown Prince
- —在東京situated in Tokyo
- —小東京epitome of Tokyo; miniature Tokyo
- —早東戦(baseball) game between Waseda and Tokyo universities
- —東照宮Toshogu Shrine
- —東南東east-southeast; ESE
- —東北東east-northeast; ENE
- —東洋史Asian history; Oriental history
- —関東軍Kwantung Army (Japanese armed forces in Manchukuo)