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)
On readings
ドウトウ
Kun readings
みちいう
Variant forms
噵衜衟Words with 道
LevelWord & meaningActions
- —歌道versification; tanka poetry
- —画道art of painting
- —外道tirthika; non-Buddhist teachings; non-Buddhist; heterodoxy; unorthodoxy; heresy; heretic; demon; devil; fiend; brute; wretch; type of fish one did not intend to catch
- —気道respiratory tract; air duct
- —求道seeking after truth
- —旧道old road
- —軍道military road
- —劇道drama; dramatic art
- —古道old road; ancient road; ancient methods; ancient moral teachings; the way of learning
- —公道public road; highway; righteousness; justice; right path
- —孝道filial piety
- —皇道the benevolent Imperial rule; the Imperial Way
- —香道traditional art of incense appreciation; Way of Fragrance; kōdō
- —索道cableway; ropeway; aerial lift; cable car
- —桟道plank path (on a steep mountainside, cliff face, etc.); walkway
- —師道duty of a teacher
- —七道the seven districts of ancient Japan
- —儒道Confucianism
- —唱道advocacy
- —善道path of virtue; righteousness