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
- —一般国道ordinary national road; non-expressway national road
- —変則軌道trajectory-shifting (e.g. missile)
- —上気道炎upper respiratory tract infection; URTI
- —連絡道路accessway; access road; connecting path
- —報道記者news reporter; journalist
- —人道回廊humanitarian corridor
- —架空索道aerial ropeway
- —優先道路priority road; road on which vehicles have priority at all intersections
- —併用軌道rail track laid on a road
- —鉄道模型model train; model railway
- —私道負担portion of a plot of land that is a private road
- —索道鉄道cable railway
- —道徳警察morality police (e.g. in Iran)
- —産道感染intrapartum infection; infection acquired during birth
- —周回軌道orbit
- —軌道投入orbit insertion (e.g. a satellite); orbital injection
- —報道管制news blackout; news censorship
- —公園道路parkway; road through a park
- —臨港鉄道harbor railway
- —王道進行royal road progression; koakuma chord progression