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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
- —東部時間Eastern Time (US time zone)
- —東証一部First Section of the Tokyo Stock Exchange
- —北東航路Northeast Passage (sea route along the north coast of Russia)
- —東北地方Tōhoku region (northernmost six prefectures of Honshu); Tohoku region
- —東北日本northeast Japan (northeast of the Itoigawa-Shizuoka Tectonic Line)
- —東名高速Tokyo-Nagoya Expressway; Tomei Expressway
- —東北野兎Lepus brachyurus lyoni (subspecies of Japanese hare)
- —東西東西ladies and gentlemen!; your attention, please!; roll up, roll up!
- —東京尖鼠Hawker's least shrew (Sorex minutissimus hawkeri)
- —東部土竜eastern mole (Scalopus aquaticus); common mole
- —極偏東風polar easterlies; polar Hadley cells
- —東海地震Tokai earthquake (e.g. of 1498, 1605, 1707 and 1854)
- —東京五輪Tokyo Olympics
- —東洋哲学Eastern philosophy; Asian philosophy
- —東洋人街Asian quarters (esp. in Brazil); Asian district
- —征東将軍commander-in-chief of the expeditionary force against the eastern barbarians (940-1335)
- —神武東征Emperor Jimmu's eastern expedition (starting in Hyuga in 607 BCE, ending with the unification of Yamato)
- —東西冷戦Cold War (between the East and the West)
- —日東駒専Nihon University, Toyo University, Komazawa University and Senshu University (group of similarly ranked private universities in Tokyo)
- —東方植民medieval German eastward expansion; Ostsiedlung