Kanji1 / 12
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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ドウトウ
Kun readings
みちいう
Variant forms
噵衜衟Words with 道
LevelWord & meaningActions
- —大入道large, bald-headed monster; giant; large, bald man; big baldy; large monk
- —大道具stage setting; scenery; stagehand; sceneshifter
- —尿道炎urethritis; inflammation of the urethra
- —赤道祭ceremony to celebrate crossing the equator
- —赤道儀equatorial telescope
- —難行道the hard way; striving for enlightenment through one's own efforts (as opposed to reliance on Amitabha)
- —食道楽gourmand; epicure
- —道化るto jest; to clown (around)
- —軌道船orbiter
- —修道尼nun
- —道議会Hokkaido Legislative Assembly
- —道交法Road Traffic Act
- —道具論instrumentalism
- —性道徳sexual morality
- —登山道mountain trail; path up a mountain
- —道徳上morally; from a moral point of view; moral (issue, responsibility, etc.); ethical
- —三悪道the world of hungry spirits and the world of animals; three evil worlds hell
- —裏街道byroad; byway
- —仮道管tracheid
- —道徳劇morality play