Meanings
Readings
Common Words
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
cruel; heartless; hard; harsh; severe
violent; intense; strong; heavy; extreme
very bad; terrible; awful
excessive; exorbitant; unreasonable; outrageous; unfair; unjust
tool; implement; instrument; utensil; apparatus; device
means
furniture
road; highway
reason; logic; sense; truth; right
the way back; the way home; return trip
Abbreviation
road; path; street; route
way; set of practices; rules for conducting oneself
Abbreviation; In japanese schools
moral education
Buddhist teachings
Taoism
administrative region of Japan (Hokkaido)
Historical term
administrative region of Japan (Tokaido, Tosando, etc.)
province (administrative region of Korea)
circuit (administrative region of China)
Historical term
province (Tang-era administrative region of China)
journey; trip; travels
Adverb (fukushi)
during the journey; on the way; while travelling
Astronomy; Physics
orbit; trajectory
(railroad) track
(right) track; proper course
Memory Mnemonics
Keywords
The core concepts or meanings associated with this specific kanji.
Constituents
The visual building blocks used to craft this character's story.
Mnemonic Stories
Out on the road-way, Iโm risking my neck driving in this traffic.
A traffic jam on this specific road-way creates a bottleneck that chokes the flow of cars for miles.
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