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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
- —道念moral sense; wife of a monk
- —道俗monks and laity
- —道家Taoist
- —道歌moral poem
- —婦道woman's duties
- —権道inappropriate means to a worthy end; expediency
- —常道normal practice; proper practice
- —魚道path taken by school of fish; fish ladder; fishway
- —士道chivalry; samurai code
- —色道sexual passion
- —煙道chimney; flue
- —農道farm road
- —覇道rule by military force; military rule; (way of the) conqueror; path of supremacy
- —斯道this art or field of study
- —芸道performing arts; accomplishment (in performing arts)
- —棋道art of shogi; art of go
- —道央central Hokkaido
- —道観Taoist temple
- —道民resident of Hokkaidō; citizen of Hokkaidō
- —六道the six realms (Deva realm, Asura realm, Human realm, Animal realm, Hungry Ghost realm, Naraka realm)