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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
- —道塗road
- —腟道vaginal canal; vaginal passage
- —僊道Taoist teachings; Taoist arts; path to becoming an immortal
- —釣道具fishing tackle
- —飛道具firearms; missile; projectile weapon
- —責道具instruments of torture
- —獄道者scoundrel; rake
- —魔道師sorcerer; wizard; mage
- —八聖道noble eightfold path
- —暗穴道road taken by a Chinese ajari buddhist monk when he incurred the wrath of emperor Genso (685-762)
- —中仙道Nakasendo (Edo-period Edo-Kyoto highway)
- —道徳經Tao Te Ching (classic Chinese text by Lao Tzu); Daodejing
- —茶花道tea ceremony and flower arranging
- —侠道会Kyōdō-kai (yakuza syndicate)
- —悪虐無道treacherous; heinous; treasonous; atrocious
- —言語道斷outrageous; preposterous; scandalous; inexcusable; absurd; execrable
- —タコ入道octopus; man with a bald or shaven head
- —たこ入道octopus; man with a bald or shaven head
- —道楽ものlibertine; playboy; rake; debauchee; fast liver; lazy person; hobbyist
- —食い道楽gourmand; epicure