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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)
東北地方 とうほくちほう

Tōhoku region (northernmost six prefectures of Honshu)

偏東風 へんとうふう

easterly wind (e.g. trade wind, polar easterlies)

極東風 きょくとうふう

polar easterlies

安東都護府 あんとうとごふ

Protectorate General to Pacify the East (Tang-period Chinese office established in Pyongyang in 668 CE)

関東十八檀林 かんとうじゅうはちだんりん

eighteen centers of Buddhist learning (of the Pure Land sect in the Kanto region)

中東欧 ちゅうとうおう

Central and Eastern Europe

東学 とうがく

Tonghak (19th century Korean religious movement)

東の対 ひがしのたい

eastern side house (in traditional palatial-style architecture)

東名 とうめい

Tokyo and Nagoya

東北日本 とうほくにほん

northeast Japan (northeast of the Itoigawa-Shizuoka Tectonic Line)

東日本大震災 ひがしにほんだいしんさい

Great East Japan earthquake (March 11, 2011)

東北地方太平洋沖地震 とうほくちほうたいへいようおきじしん

Tōhoku earthquake (March 11, 2011)

東北関東大震災 とうほくかんとうだいしんさい

Tōhoku earthquake (March 11, 2011)

東北関東大震災 とうほくかんとうだいしんさい

Tōhoku earthquake (March 11, 2011)

東名高速 とうめいこうそく

Tokyo-Nagoya Expressway

初東風 はつこち

first eastern wind of the year

東側諸国 ひがしがわしょこく

(former) Eastern Bloc countries

南東風 みなみごち

east wind inclining towards the south

東西東西 とうざいとうざい

ladies and gentlemen!

関東弁 かんとうべん

Kantō dialect

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