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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
- —東海道Tōkaidō (Edo-period Edo-Kyoto highway); Tōkaidō (under the ritsuryō system; one of the seven districts of ancient Japan)
- —道理でindeed; it's no wonder
- —入道雲cumulonimbus; gigantic columns of clouds (in summer); thunderhead
- —不道徳immorality; iniquity; impropriety
- —不道理unreasonableness; absurdity; irrationality
- —武士道Bushido; samurai code of chivalry
- —報道官press officer; press secretary
- —本街道main road
- —遊歩道promenade; esplanade
- —古道具old furniture; curios; secondhand goods
- —大道芸street performance
- —道徳律moral law
- —外耳道ear canal; external auditory canal; external auditory meatus
- —居合道iaido (art of drawing the Japanese sword)
- —水道局waterworks bureau; water department
- —鉄道網railroad network; railroad system
- —無軌道trackless; reckless; dissipated
- —着道楽having a weakness for fine clothes
- —水道料water rates; water charges
- —蛸入道octopus; man with a bald or shaven head