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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
- —杖道jōdō; form of martial art using a cane staff
- —声道vocal tract
- —道長head of a martial arts organization (organisation)
- —横道wickedness; evil; iniquity; wrongness
- —有道being good; being virtuous; virtuous person
- —道号monk's self-chosen pseudonym
- —道警Hokkaido Prefectural Police
- —陰道vagina; love-making technique
- —道内within Hokkaido
- —成道completing the path to becoming a Buddha (by attaining enlightenment)
- —衆道male homosexuality; pederasty
- —若道homosexuality; pederasty
- —美道male homosexuality; pederasty
- —不道inhuman; immoral; unreasonable; outrageous; wicked; barbarity (one of the eight unpardonable crimes, incl. killing three people in one family, or dismembering a corpse)
- —道諦truth of the way to the cessation of suffering
- —滅道truths of the cessation of suffering and of the way to the cessation of suffering
- —涙道lachrymal passage (lacrimal, lacrymal)
- —内道Buddhist teachings; Buddhist
- —仁道the path that one should follow as a human being; the path of benevolence
- —道蔵Dao Zang; Taoist canon