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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
- —鉄道駅railway station; train station
- —筆禅道Art of the Brush (esp. school of Japanese Zen calligraphy)
- —天師道Way of the Celestial Masters (ancient Chinese Daoist movement orig. known as The Way of the Five Pecks of Rice)
- —道路網road network; highway network; highway network system
- —空手道the way of karate; karate
- —皇道派Imperial Way Faction (of the Imperial Japanese Army)
- —跨道橋overpass
- —修道僧monk; friar
- —没義道brutality; inhumanity
- —修道服habit (garment worn by nuns, monks, friars, etc.)
- —報道人reporter; mediaperson
- —報道局news bureau; press bureau
- —報道部news department
- —軌道面orbital plane
- —低軌道low orbit; low Earth orbit; LEO
- —弾道学ballistics
- —修道者monk; member of religious order
- —闇穴道road taken by a Chinese ajari buddhist monk when he incurred the wrath of emperor Genso (685-762)
- —書道家calligrapher
- —中山道Nakasendo (Edo-period Edo-Kyoto highway)