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Kyōiku kanji
Kanji that Japanese students should learn in elementary school #kyoiku
Jōyō kanji
Kanji considered of common use by the Japanese Ministry of Education #joyo
2nd grade kanji
Kanji learned in second grade (elementary school) #grade-2
8 strokes
Kanji with 8 strokes #strokes-8
JLPT N5 kanji
JLPT N5 kanji: Basic Level #jlpt5k

Reading

  • On'yomi
    トウ
  • Kun'yomi
    ひがし
  • Nanori
    あいあがりあずまあづまこちさきしのとおはるひがもと
  • Chinese (pinyin)
    dong1
  • Korean (hangul)
  • Korean (romanized)
    dong
  • Vietnamese
    Đông
  • Kantenji (braille kanji)
    ⠱⣎

Meaning

Stroke order

Not available for this kanji.

東 stroke 1東 stroke 2東 stroke 3東 stroke 4東 stroke 5東 stroke 6東 stroke 7東 stroke 8東 stroke 9
Number of strokes: 8

Components in kanji 東

Similar kanji

Antonyms

Popular words containing this kanji

ひがし
popularJLPT N5noun (generic)
  • east
東西 とうざい
popularJLPT N2noun (generic)adjective (generic)
  • east and west
東洋 とうよう
popularJLPT N2noun (generic)
  • the East, the Orient, (East) Asia
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Extended information

  • Frequency37
  • KANJIDIC Project

    2050

    "Modern Reader's Japanese-English Character Dictionary", by Andrew Nelson (now published as the "Classic" Nelson)

    213

    "The New Nelson Japanese-English Character Dictionary", by John Haig

    2596

    "New Japanese-English Character Dictionary", by Jack Halpern

    3568

    "Kanji Learners Dictionary" (Kodansha) by Jack Halpern

    2221

    "Remembering The Kanji" by James Heisig

    504

    "A New Dictionary of Kanji Usage" (Gakken)

    11

    "Japanese Names", by P.G. O'Neill

    771

    "Essential Kanji" by .GP. O'Neill

    27

    "Daikanwajiten" by Morohashi

    14499:6:172

    "A Guide To Remembering Japanese Characters" by Kenneth G. Henshall

    184

    "Kanji and Kana" by Spahn and Hadamitzky

    71

    "Kanji and Kana" by Spahn and Hadamitzky (2011 edition)

    71

    "A Guide To Reading and Writing Japanese" by Florence Sakade

    121

    Japanese Kanji Flashcards, by Max Hodges and Tomoko Okazaki (Series 1)

    63

    "A Guide To Reading and Writing Japanese" 3rd edition, by Henshall, Seeley and De Groot

    201

    Tuttle Kanji Cards, by Alexander Kask

    164

    "The Kanji Way to Japanese Language Power" by Dale Crowley

    108

    "Kanji in Context" by Nishiguchi and Kono

    39

    "Japanese For Busy People" vols I-III, published by the AJLT. The codes are the volume.chapter

    2.10

    The "Kodansha Compact Kanji Guide"

    1053

    Codes from Yves Maniette's "Les Kanjis dans la tete" French adaptation of Heisig

    516

    "Remembering The Kanji, 6th Ed." by James Heisig

    543

    "Kodansha Kanji Dictionary", (2nd Ed. of the NJECD) by Jack Halpern

    4385

    "Kanji Learners Dictionary" (Kodansha), 2nd edition (2013) by Jack Halpern

    2987
  • Halpern's SKIP (System of Kanji Indexing by Patterns) code

    4-8-3

    The descriptor codes for The Kanji Dictionary (Tuttle1996) by Spahn and Hadamitzky

    0a8.9

    The "Four Corner" code for the kanji. This is a code invented by Wang Chen in 1928

    5090.6

    The codes developed by the late Father Joseph De Roo, and published in his book "2001 Kanji" (Bonjinsha)

    1564
  • JIS X 0208-1997 - kuten coding nn-nn

    1-37-76

    Decimal representation of the UTF16 character

    26481