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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
- —強欲非道abnormally and inhumanly greedy; cruel and rapacious
- —残酷非道inhumanity; atrocity; abominable cruelty
- —残忍非道cruel and inhuman; brutal; merciless
- —実践道徳practical ethics (morality)
- —出世街道highway to success
- —仁義道徳humanity and justice; benevolence and righteousness
- —人道蹂躙outrage against humanity
- —人倫道徳ethics and morality
- —世道人心(public) morals and sentiments
- —大逆非道heinous; treacherous; atrocious; diabolic; fiendish; inhuman
- —大逆無道heinous; treacherous; atrocious; diabolic; fiendish; inhuman
- —大道演説street (soapbox) oratory; stump oratory
- —中道右派right-of-center faction (group); center-right (centre)
- —中道左派left-of-center faction (group)
- —中道路線moderate line; middle-of-the-road policy line
- —天理人道the laws of nature and humanity
- —道具一式set of tools (implements); kit; outfit
- —道化芝居farce; low comedy
- —道心堅固being of firm (unshakable) faith and strict practice
- —道徳堅固of strict morals (moral principles); highly moral