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東

JLPT N5 SL2 8 strokes Frequency: #25

Meanings

east

Radicals

木

Decomposition

⿻木日

Etymology

Ideographic: The sun 日 rising behind a tree 木; compare 西

Writing Practice

Stroke 0 / 8

Stroke Order

1 horizontal bottom-right-to-top-left

2 vertical bottom-right-to-top-left

3 corner bottom-right-to-top-left

4 horizontal bottom-to-top

5 horizontal bottom-to-top

6 vertical right-to-left

7 diagonal bottom-right-to-top-left

8 diagonal bottom-right-to-top-left

On'yomi (Chinese reading)

トウ tou

Used in compound words

Kun'yomi (Japanese reading)

ひがし higashi

Standalone

Words Using This Kanji

535 words total

Other (19 words)

東京スカイツリーとうきょうスカイツリー

Tokyo Skytree (broadcasting and observation tower in Sumida, Tokyo)

東京式アクセントとうきょうしきアクセント

Tokyo-style accent, widely used in Japan

東土竜あずまもぐら

small Japanese mole (Mogera imaizumii)

東部土竜とうぶもぐら

eastern mole (Scalopus aquaticus)

polar easterlies

Tokyoite

east round

quarter-length game consisting of east round only

ダブ東ダブトン

pung (or kong) of east tiles when east is both the round wind and one's seat wind (meld)

東家トンチャ

east player

東海地震とうかいじしん

Tokai earthquake (e.g. of 1498, 1605, 1707 and 1854)

アメリカ極東軍司令部アメリカきょくとうぐんしれいぶ

Far East Command

東アメリカ扇歯鯨ひがしアメリカおうぎはくじら

Gervais' beaked whale (Mesoplodon europaeus)

東京円とうきょうえん

Tokyo Foreign Exchange Market yen exchange rate

第四次中東戦争だいよじちゅうとうせんそう

Yom Kippur War

東学党の乱とうがくとうのらん

Tonghak Rebellion (of Korea; 1894)

東へ東へひがしへひがしへ

constantly eastward

東一華あずまいちげ

Anemone raddeana (species of anemone flower)

関東弁かんとうべん

Kantō dialect

ひがし (1 words)

東ゴリラひがしゴリラ

eastern gorilla (Gorilla beringei)

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