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道 みち road-way, street, district, journey, course, moral, teachings 5 207 12 162 しんにょう・しんにゅう 会意 Compound Ideographic When we go out on the ROAD-WAY, we often risk our own necks (that´s why I take the train! ).

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ドウ、トウ さ, じ, ど, みつ 道(みち): (1) road; street; way; path; course; route; lane (2) distance; ways (e.g. "a long ways") (3) the way (of proper conduct, etc.); one's way; morals (4) teachings (esp. Confucian or Buddhist); dogma (5) field (of medicine, etc.); subject (6) way; method; means報道(ほうどう): (1) information; report; journalism; news (2) to report道路(どうろ): road; highway鉄道(てつどう): railroad; railway; rail transport軌道(きどう): (1) orbit; trajectory (2) railroad track柔道(じゅうどう): judo水道(すいどう): water service; water supply書道(しょどう): calligraphy道具(どうぐ): implement; tool; means歩道(ほどう): footpath; walkway; sidewalk街道(かいどう): highway (esp. one existing from the Edo period); main road道徳(どうとく): morals道場(どうじょう): (1) dojo (hall used for martial arts training) (2) manda (place of Buddhist practice or meditation, esp. the place under the bodhi tree where Buddha attained enlightenment)赤道(せきどう): equator使い道(つかいみち): a use; purpose to which something is put片道(かたみち): one-way (trip)回り道(まわりみち): detour; diversion道順(みちじゅん): itinerary; route道(どう): (1) road (2) way (3) Buddhist teachings (4) Taoism (5) modern administrative region of Japan (Hokkaido) (6) historical administrative region of Japan (Tokaido, Tosando, etc.) (7) province (Tang-era administrative region of China) (8) province (modern administrative region of Korea) 2 首: neck; counter for songs and poems辶: walk; walking; road radical variant (no. 162) 辵 7 (none) road-way Watch as a villianous fiend stretches a poor damsel´s neck over a dusty road. Her ear pressed to the ground, she can hear the rumble of a carriage thundering down the roadway. Will the hero save her in time? Or will her neck be ground into the road, spilling it´s precious contents into the dust?

Kanji	道
Onyomi	ドウ、トウ
Kunyomi	みち
Nanori	さ, じ, ど, みつ
English	road-way, street, district, journey, course, moral, teachings
Examples	道(みち): (1) road; street; way; path; course; route; lane (2) distance; ways (e.g. "a long ways") (3) the way (of proper conduct, etc.); one's way; morals (4) teachings (esp. Confucian or Buddhist); dogma (5) field (of medicine, etc.); subject (6) way; method; means 報道(ほうどう): (1) information; report; journalism; news (2) to report 道路(どうろ): road; highway 鉄道(てつどう): railroad; railway; rail transport 軌道(きどう): (1) orbit; trajectory (2) railroad track 柔道(じゅうどう): judo 水道(すいどう): water service; water supply 書道(しょどう): calligraphy 道具(どうぐ): implement; tool; means 歩道(ほどう): footpath; walkway; sidewalk 街道(かいどう): highway (esp. one existing from the Edo period); main road 道徳(どうとく): morals 道場(どうじょう): (1) dojo (hall used for martial arts training) (2) manda (place of Buddhist practice or meditation, esp. the place under the bodhi tree where Buddha attained enlightenment) 赤道(せきどう): equator 使い道(つかいみち): a use; purpose to which something is put 片道(かたみち): one-way (trip) 回り道(まわりみち): detour; diversion 道順(みちじゅん): itinerary; route 道(どう): (1) road (2) way (3) Buddhist teachings (4) Taoism (5) modern administrative region of Japan (Hokkaido) (6) historical administrative region of Japan (Tokaido, Tosando, etc.) (7) province (Tang-era administrative region of China) (8) province (modern administrative region of Korea)
JLPT Level	5
Jouyou Grade	2
Frequency	207
Components	首: neck; counter for songs and poems 辶: walk; walking; road radical variant (no. 162)
Number of Strokes	12
Kanji Radical	辵
Radical Number	162
Radical Strokes	7
Radical Reading	しんにょう・しんにゅう
Traditional Form	(none)
Classification	会意 Compound Ideographic
Keyword	road-way
Koohii Story 1	When we go out on the ROAD-WAY, we often risk our own necks (that´s why I take the train! ).
Koohii Story 2	Watch as a villianous fiend stretches a poor damsel´s neck over a dusty road. Her ear pressed to the ground, she can hear the rumble of a carriage thundering down the roadway. Will the hero save her in time? Or will her neck be ground into the road, spilling it´s precious contents into the dust?

Administrative Region Teachings Road Road Way Morals Esp Means