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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On readings
ドウトウ
Kun readings
みちいう
Variant forms
噵衜衟Words with 道
LevelWord & meaningActions
- —道州制administrative reform proposal, involving integration of prefectures into 7 or 9 states
- —銃剣道form of modern martial art using the bayonet
- —珍道中incident-filled journey
- —剣道着kendo gi; kendo uniform
- —剣道場kendo hall
- —魔道士sorcerer; wizard; mage
- —食道癌esophageal cancer
- —八正道noble eightfold path
- —道府県prefectures (of Japan, excl. Tokyo)
- —若衆道male homosexuality; pederasty
- —地獄道naraka (hell) realm
- —人間道humaneness; human realm
- —上気道upper respiratory tract; upper airway
- —六道銭six coins placed in a casket (said to be to pay the fare to cross the River Sanzu)
- —道陸神traveler's guardian deity (traveller)
- —魔道書grimoire; book of magic; book of sorcery
- —内道場inner practice hall (for Buddhism; on the imperial palace grounds)
- —道徳性morality
- —武道家martial artist
- —中軌道ICO; Intermediate Circular Orbit