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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)

早東戦そうとうせん

(baseball) game between Waseda and Tokyo universities

東京都政とうきょうとせい

government of Tokyo Metropolis

東照宮とうしょうぐう

Toshogu Shrine

洋の東西を問わずようのとうざいをとわず

in all parts of the world

Asian history

east-southeast

east-southeast

east-northeast

east-northeast

東京証券取引所とうきょうしょうけんとりひきじょ

Tokyo Stock Exchange

東証株価指数とうしょうかぶかしすう

Tokyo Stock Price Index

東洋医学とうよういがく

Oriental medicine

東証第一部とうしょうだいいちぶ

First Section of the Tokyo Stock Exchange

北東風きたごち

northeasterly wind

東証とうしょう

Tokyo Stock Exchange

関東軍かんとうぐん

Kwantung Army (Japanese armed forces in Manchukuo)

東署ひがししょ

eastern office (esp. police)

東西古今とうざいここん

all times and places

東壁とうへき

east wall

関東弁かんとうべん

Kantō dialect

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