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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)

日東にっとう

Japan

東遊びあずまあそび

Azuma-asobi (ancient Japanese dance suite that originated in eastern Japan)

東晋とうしん

Eastern Jin dynasty (of China; 317-420 CE)

東周とうしゅう

Eastern Zhou dynasty (of China; 771-256 BCE)

東漢とうかん

Eastern Han dynasty (of China; 25-220 CE)

東根笹あずまねざさ

Pleioblastus chino (species of bamboo grass)

東京大空襲とうきょうだいくうしゅう

Great Tokyo Air Raid (March 10, 1945)

広東料理カントンりょうり

Cantonese food

東証一部とうしょういちぶ

First Section of the Tokyo Stock Exchange

東部時間とうぶじかん

Eastern Time (US time zone)

東石楠花あずましゃくなげ

Azuma rhododendron (Rhododendron metternichii var.)

東南海地震とうなんかいじしん

Tonankai earthquake of 1944

東は東西は西ひがしはひがしにしはにし

East is East, and West is West

東京語とうきょうご

Tokyo dialect (esp. historical)

東司とうす

toilet in a Zen monastery

東浄とうちん

toilet in a Zen temple

東洋区とうようく

Oriental (zoogeographical region)

東漢氏やまとのあやうじ

Yamato no Aya clan

北東航路ほくとうこうろ

Northeast Passage (sea route along the north coast of Russia)

関東弁かんとうべん

Kantō dialect

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