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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 (20 words)

東洋人街とうようじんがい

Asian quarters (esp. in Brazil)

オランダ領東インドオランダりょうひがしインド

Dutch East Indies

帰東きとう

returning to the East

上代東国方言じょうだいとうごくほうげん

eastern old Japanese

東帰とうき

returning to an eastern place (esp. from Kyoto to Tokyo)

東雲色しののめいろ

salmon (color, colour)

東ティモール民主共和国ひがしティモールみんしゅきょうわこく

Democratic Republic of Timor-Leste (East Timor)

ウルグアイ東方共和国ウルグアイとうほうきょうわこく

Oriental Republic of Uruguay

北東部ほくとうぶ

northeastern part

南東部なんとうぶ

southeastern part

神武東征じんむとうせい

Emperor Jimmu's eastern expedition (starting in Hyuga in 607 BCE, ending with the unification of Yamato)

征東せいとう

eastern expedition

征東将軍せいとうしょうぐん

commander-in-chief of the expeditionary force against the eastern barbarians (940-1335)

征東大将軍せいとうたいしょうぐん

commander-in-chief of the expeditionary force against the eastern barbarians (940-1335)

関東人かんとうじん

Kantō native

東山道とうさんどう

Tōsandō (area between the Tōkaidō and Hokurikudō)

東山とうさん

eastern mountains

毛沢東主義もうたくとうしゅぎ

Maoism

犬が西向きゃ尾は東いぬがにしむきゃおはひがし

that goes without saying

関東弁かんとうべん

Kantō dialect

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