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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)
馬耳東風 ばじとうふう

utter indifference

米東部時間 べいとうぶじかん

Eastern Standard Time (US)

北北東 ほくほくとう

north-northeast

東風 こち

east wind

東側 ひがしがわ

east side

南東 なんとう

southeast

北東 ほくとう

northeast

東亜 とうあ

East Asia

南南東 なんなんとう

south-southeast

東下り あずまくだり

travelling east (esp. to Edo) from Kyoto

東海道五十三次 とうかいどうごじゅうさんつぎ

fifty-three stations on the Tōkaidō (Edo-Kyoto highway in Edo-period Japan)

東宮職 とうぐうしょく

Imperial Household Agency employee assigned to the household of the Crown Prince

東欧諸国 とうおうしょこく

Eastern European countries

東洋学 とうようがく

Oriental studies

西高東低 せいこうとうてい

high barometric pressure to the west, low pressure to the east

関東大震災 かんとうだいしんさい

Great Kanto earthquake (1923)

東名高速道路 とうめいこうそくどうろ

Tokyo-Nagoya Expressway

関東一円 かんとういちえん

whole district of Kanto

在東京 ざいとうきょう

situated in Tokyo

関東弁 かんとうべん

Kantō dialect

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