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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
- —東西南北east, west, south and north
- —東方拡大eastward expansion; eastward enlargement
- —東方教会The Eastern Church
- —東奔西走busying oneself about (something); being on the move; bestirring oneself; on the go; taking an active interest
- —東洋主義Orientalism
- —東洋段通Oriental rug
- —馬耳東風utter indifference; talking to the wall; praying to deaf ears
- —東欧諸国Eastern European countries
- —西高東低high barometric pressure to the west, low pressure to the east
- —関東一円whole district of Kanto
- —東京都政government of Tokyo Metropolis
- —東洋医学Oriental medicine; Eastern medicine
- —東夷西戎barbarians to the east and to the west (from the perspective of old China)
- —東西古今all times and places; everywhen and everywhere
- —関東炊きoden; dish of various ingredients, e.g. egg, daikon, potato, chikuwa, konnyaku, stewed in soy-flavored dashi
- —関東地方Kanto region (incl. Tokyo, Kanagawa, Saitama, Gunma, Tochigi, Ibaraki and Chiba prefectures)
- —中東諸国Middle East countries
- —東京裁判Tokyo Trials; International Military Tribunal for the Far East; IMTFE
- —中東戦争Arab-Israeli Wars (1948, 1956, 1967, 1973)
- —関東八州the eight Edo-period provinces of Kanto (Sagami, Musashi, Awa, Kazusa, Shimousa, Hitachi, Kouzuke and Shimotsuke)