Kanji

Jōyō kanji, Taught in grade 2

JLPT level: N4

207 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers

Stroke count: 12

Meaning: road-way, street, district, journey, course, moral, teachings

Kunyomi: みち いう

Onyomi: ドウ トウ

Composition:

Radical

Radical:

Reading: しんにょう

Meaning: walk

Strokes: 3

Examples

Examples with audio

路(どうろ)   road

場(どうじょう)   hall used for martial arts training

(ほどう)   sidewalk

(すいどう)   water supply

(しょどう)   calligraphy

地下(ちかどう)   underground tunnel

(しんとう)   Shintoism

する(ほうどうする)   report

(みち)   street

(ちかみち)   shortcut

Onyomi Examples

ドウ road, path, street, route, way, set of practices, rules for conducting oneself, Buddhist teachings, Taoism, modern administrative region of Japan (Hokkaido), historical administrative region of Japan (Tokaido, Tosando, etc.), province (Tang-era administrative region of China), province (modern administrative region of Korea)

ドウギ morality, moral principles

セイドウ path of righteousness, path of duty, right track, correct path

カイドウ sea route

ユウドウ being good, being virtuous, virtuous person

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)

Kunyomi Examples

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

みちすじ path, route, itinerary

はなみち elevated walkway through the audience to the stage (kabuki), honourable end to a career

よこみち byway, side street, cross street, wrong way, digression