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Administrative Region Teachings Road Road Way Morals Esp Means

Kanji
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
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?
RTK Index (new) 295

Tags: jlpt.n5, grade2, kanjifreq1-250, kanji_structure.town.building

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