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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
- —黄道ecliptic
- —得道attaining salvation
- —道破declaration
- —糧道supply line; supply of provisions
- —悟道(the path of spiritual) enlightenment; attainment of supreme wisdom; water of life; philosophy
- —無道inhuman; immoral; unreasonable; outrageous; wicked
- —非道unjust; inhuman
- —村道village road
- —諸道(artistic) accomplishments
- —間道side road; shortcut
- —新道new road
- —政道politics
- —産道birth canal
- —極道wicked; evil; profligate; immoral; wastrel; scoundrel; villain; organized crime; yakuza; underworld
- —私道private road; driveway
- —道士Taoist; person of high morals; Buddhist monk; immortal mountain wizard; Taoist immortal
- —道中journey; trip; travels; during the journey; on the way; while travelling
- —道心moral sense
- —道学ethics; moral philosophy; (study of) Confucianism (esp. the Cheng-Zhu school of neo-Confucianism); (study of) Taoism; Shingaku (Edo-period moral philosophy)
- —道床roadbed