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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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ドウトウ
Kun readings
みちいう
Variant forms
噵衜衟Words with 道
LevelWord & meaningActions
- —水道代water bill
- —三道具the three weapons for catching criminals (Edo period)
- —道路脇roadside
- —道徳経Tao Te Ching (classic Chinese text by Lao Tzu); Daodejing
- —軌道上in orbit
- —街道筋highway route (Edo period); main route
- —尿道口urethral opening; urinary meatus
- —水道橋aqueduct; water bridge
- —道路族people (esp. kids) who spend a lot of time in the streets (of their residential areas), being noisy; group of politicians who support highway construction interests; highway tribe
- —下気道lower respiratory tract; lower airway
- —武道場martial arts area (within a school, gym, etc.)
- —茶道口host's entrance to a tea-ceremony room
- —夜道怪folk monster who wanders at night injuring and kidnapping people
- —南海道Nankaidō (alt. name for the Shikoku region)
- —西海道Saikaidō (name for the Kyūshū region under the ritsuryō system)
- —江原道Gangwon-do (South Korea); Gangwon Province; Kangwon Province (North Korea)
- —京畿道Gyeonggi-do (South Korea); Gyeonggi Province
- —天狗道world of the tengu; hell of the long-nosed goblins
- —都道県prefectures (of Japan, excl. Osaka and Kyoto)
- —北陸道Hokurikudō; one of the seven districts of ancient Japan; Hokurikudō; highway running through the Hokuriku region