Jisho

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12 strokes (also 11)
Radical:
walk 辵 (辶, ⻌, ⻍)
Parts:
Variants:
road-way, street, district, journey, course, moral, teachings
Kun:
みちいう
On:
ドウトウ
Jōyō kanji, taught in grade 2
JLPT level N4
207 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers

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On reading compounds

  • 道 【ドウ】 road, path, street, route, way, set of practices, rules for conducting oneself, moral education, Buddhist teachings, Taoism, administrative region of Japan (Hokkaido), administrative region of Japan (Tokaido, Tosando, etc.), province (administrative region of Korea), circuit (administrative region of China), province (Tang-era administrative region of China)
  • 道義 【ドウギ】 morality, moral principles
  • 正道 【セイドウ】 path of righteousness, path of duty, right track, correct path
  • 海道 【カイドウ】 sea route
  • 有道 【ユウドウ】 being good, being virtuous, virtuous person
  • 不道 【フドウ】 inhuman, immoral, unreasonable, outrageous, wicked, barbarity (one of the eight unpardonable crimes, incl. killing three people in one family, or dismembering a corpse)

Kun reading compounds

  • 道 【みち】 road, path, street, lane, passage, route, way, distance, journey, road (e.g. to victory), course, way (of living, proper conduct, etc.), moral principles, teachings (esp. Confucian or Buddhist), dogma, field (e.g. of medicine), subject, speciality, means, way, method
  • 道筋 【みちすじ】 path, route, itinerary
  • 花道 【はなみち】 elevated walkway through the audience to the stage, honourable end to a career
  • 横道 【よこみち】 byway, side street, cross street, wrong way, digression

Readings

Japanese names:
さ、 じ、 ど、 みつ、 おさむ
Mandarin Chinese (pinyin):
dao4
Korean:
do

Spanish

  • camino
  • razón
  • modo
  • decir
  • senda
  • método

Portuguese

  • Caminho
  • estrada
  • rua
  • distrito
  • viagem
  • curso
  • moral
  • ensinamentos
  • filosofia

French

  • voie
  • route
  • rue
  • région
  • voyage
  • morale
  • enseignements
122 A Guide To Reading and Writing Japanese (Florence Sakade)
205 A Guide To Reading and Writing Japanese 3rd edition (Henshall, Seeley and De Groot)
188 A Guide To Remembering Japanese Characters (Kenneth G. Henshall)
129 A New Dictionary of Kanji Usage
4724 Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
141 Essential Kanji (P.G. O’Neill)
93 Japanese Kanji Flashcards (Max Hodges and Tomoko Okazaki)
1811 Japanese Names (P.G. O’Neill)
3.7 Japanese for Busy People
149 Kanji and Kana (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
149 Kanji and Kana, 2nd Edition (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
66 Kanji in Context (Nishiguchi and Kono)
710 Kodansha Compact Kanji Guide
3888 Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
2000 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
2701 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern)
283 Les Kanjis dans la tete (Yves Maniette)
39010P Morohashi
3134 New Japanese English Character Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
6091 New Nelson (John Haig)
277 Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
295 Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
123 The Kanji Way to Japanese Language Power (Dale Crowley)
220 Tuttle Kanji Cards (Alexander Kask)
979 2001 Kanji
2q9.14 The Kanji Dictionary
3-3-9 SKIP code
3-2-9 SKIP code
3830.6 Four corner code
1-38-27 JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
9053 Unicode hex code

7 strokes
Radical:
house on cliff 广
Parts:
广
bed, counter for beds, floor, padding, tatami
Kun:
とこゆか
On:
ショウ
Jōyō kanji, taught in junior high
JLPT level N2
1175 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers

Speed

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On reading compounds

  • 床 【ショウ】 counter for beds
  • 床几 【ショウギ】 camp stool, folding stool
  • 臨床 【リンショウ】 clinical (e.g. pathology, physiology)
  • 温床 【オンショウ】 hotbed, breeding ground

Kun reading compounds

  • 床 【とこ】 bed, bedding, sickbed, alcove, riverbed, seedbed, straw "core" of a tatami mat, floor
  • 床の間 【とこのま】 tokonoma (alcove where art or flowers are displayed)
  • 鋏 【やっとこ】 pincers, nippers, pliers
  • 金床 【かなとこ】 anvil
  • 床 【ゆか】 floor, stage (for the narrator and the shamisen player), dining platform built across a river
  • 床下 【ゆかした】 under the floor
  • 河床 【かしょう】 riverbed, raised platform on the bank of a river for enjoying the cool in summer
  • 納涼床 【のうりょうゆか】 raised platform on the bank of a river for enjoying the summer cool

Readings

Mandarin Chinese (pinyin):
chuang2
Korean:
sang

Spanish

  • suelo
  • cama
  • alcoba
  • peluquería

Portuguese

  • cama
  • andar
  • estofamento
  • tatami

French

  • plancher
  • lit
  • rembourrage
  • tatami
  • compteur de lits
1389 A Guide To Remembering Japanese Characters (Kenneth G. Henshall)
1240 A New Dictionary of Kanji Usage
1503 Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
959 Essential Kanji (P.G. O’Neill)
507 Japanese Kanji Flashcards (Max Hodges and Tomoko Okazaki)
508 Japanese Names (P.G. O’Neill)
826 Kanji and Kana (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
845 Kanji and Kana, 2nd Edition (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
543 Kanji in Context (Nishiguchi and Kono)
584 Kodansha Compact Kanji Guide
3805 Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
1947 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
2641 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern)
599 Les Kanjis dans la tete (Yves Maniette)
9242 Morohashi
3067 New Japanese English Character Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
1608 New Nelson (John Haig)
592 Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
636 Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
1135 Tuttle Kanji Cards (Alexander Kask)
564 2001 Kanji
3q4.1 The Kanji Dictionary
3-3-4 SKIP code
0029.4 Four corner code
1-30-18 JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
5e8a Unicode hex code