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道 kanji
road-way, street, district, journey, course, moral, teachings
- JLPT level
- N4 (unofficial)
- First appears in
- N5 vocabulary
- Strokes
- 12
- School grade
- Grade 2 (elementary school)
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On readings
ドウトウ
Kun readings
みちいう
Variant forms
噵衜衟Words with 道
LevelWord & meaningActions
- —木道boardwalk (e.g. over marshy ground); wooden causeway
- —道上on the road; side of the road; roadside
- —府道prefectural road (in Osaka and Kyoto Prefectures)
- —都道Tokyo municipal road
- —道庁Hokkaido Government Office
- —蝶道flight path of a butterfly
- —道税prefectural tax (of Hokkaido)
- —緑道greenway; greenwalk
- —廃道disused road; abandoned road
- —里道non-legal public road (sometimes no longer physically existing)
- —道県prefectures (of Japan, excl. Tokyo, Osaka and Kyoto); Hokkaido and other prefectures
- —接道connecting road; road adjacent to a property
- —区道ward road; special ward road
- —道立(Hokkaido) prefectural; managed by the Hokkaido prefectural government
- —道光Daoguang era (of emperor Xuanzong of Qing; 1820-1850)
- —道外outside Hokkaido
- —道都capital of Hokkaido (i.e. Sapporo)
- —前道front road; road in front (of a property)
- —道道Hokkaido prefectural road
- —乾道the ways of heaven; the virtue of good health and strength; the ways of men; the path that men should follow