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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
- —道徳退廃moral decadence (decline, corruption)
- —道楽仕事work done for enjoyment (as a diversion); dilettante work
- —道楽仲間companion in one's pleasures; companion in hobby activities
- —道理至極very reasonable; being perfectly consistent with reason; standing to reason
- —無理非道unreasonable and unjust; unconscionable
- —非人道的inhumane; inhuman
- —苦集滅道Suffering, Source of Suffering Desire, The Cessation of Suffering, The Way Leading to the Cessation of Suffering (The Four Noble Truths of Buddhism)
- —物の道理the principle of the thing
- —鉄道工事railroad construction work
- —半道海豚bottlenose dolphin; bottlenosed dolphin (Tursiops truncatus)
- —阿修羅道Asura realm
- —君主道徳Herrenmoral (master morality, as a philosophical concept of Nietzsche)
- —奴隷道徳Sklavenmoral (slave morality, as a philosophical concept of Nietzsche)
- —菩提道場Bodhi-manda (place of Buddhist practice or meditation, esp. the place under the bodhi tree where Buddha attained enlightenment)
- —高速鉄道high-speed rail; rapid (rail) transit
- —赤道座標equatorial coordinates
- —銀河赤道galactic equator
- —自動車道expressway; motorway
- —道徳法則moral law
- —北海道犬Hokkaido (dog breed); Ainu dog