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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
- —道聴途説shallow-minded mouthing of secondhand information
- —食道がんesophageal cancer
- —食道ガンesophageal cancer
- —魔道騎士knight wizard; mage knight
- —三つ道具the three weapons for catching criminals (Edo period)
- —道場荒しchallenging members of a dojo to a fight and demanding money upon winning
- —ひ押坑道drift (mining); driftway
- —二項道路road that is narrower than 4 meters but still counts as a valid connecting road for determining if construction is allowed on a plot adjacent to the road
- —臣道聯盟Shindo Renmei (Japanese terrorist group active in Brazil in the 1940s)
- —嫁入り道中nuptial procession
- —ものの道理the principle of the thing
- —柔道征服師judo therapist
- —道路びょうroad stud; raised pavement marker
- —おいらん道中procession of oiran through a red-light district (e.g. to meet a regular client; during the Edo period)
- —道理にかなうto stand to reason
- —道具的条件付けinstrumental conditioning
- —学問に王道無しthere are no shortcuts in learning
- —これに懲りよ道斎坊take it as a lesson learned; learn from this (mistake)
- —超伝導磁気浮上式鉄道superconducting maglev train