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
- —道路建設road construction
- —道路交通road traffic
- —道路地図road (highway) map
- —道路標示traffic sign painted on the road
- —道路輸送road transport
- —報道番組news program; news programme
- —無限軌道continuous track; caterpillar track
- —水道の水tap water
- —黄道座標ecliptic coordinates
- —人道作戦humanitarian operation
- —人道犯罪crime against humanity
- —極悪非道inhuman; heinous; atrocious
- —残虐非道inhumanity; atrocity
- —残虐無道inhumanity; atrocity
- —道聴塗説shallow-minded mouthing of secondhand information
- —暴虐非道violent and cruel; tyrannical and atrocious
- —嫁入道中nuptial procession
- —悪逆非道heinous; treacherous; atrocious; diabolic; fiendish; inhuman
- —衣装道楽love of fine clothing; weakness for fine clothes; being extravagant in clothing
- —因習道徳conventional morality; conventional morals