東 — east

ひがし東 east

Grade 2 Japanese school grade level in which this kanji is taught. Grade 1 is first year of elementary school. 8 strokes direction

U+6771 Unicode hex codepoint — a unique identifier for this character in the Unicode standard. Freq #37 Frequency rank among the ~2,500 most common kanji in Japanese newspapers. Lower number = more common. Heisig #504 Index in James Heisig's "Remembering the Kanji" — a popular textbook that teaches kanji through mnemonics and stories.

Meanings

east

word

ひがし higashi Kun'yomi Kun'yomi (訓読み) — the native Japanese reading of this kanji. Used when the kanji appears alone or with okurigana (trailing hiragana).

東(ひがし) higashi east 東(ひがし) アジア higashiajia East Asia 東(ひがし) ティモール higashiteimooru East Timor 東(ひがし) 日(に) 本(ほん) higashinihon eastern Japan 東(ひがし) 側(がわ) higashigawa east side

とう tou On'yomi On'yomi (音読み) — the Sino-Japanese reading, derived from Chinese pronunciation. Most commonly used in compound words (jukugo).

東(とう) 京(きょう) toukyou Tokyo 東(とう) 大(だい) toudai University of Tokyo 東(とう) 北(ほく) touhoku northeast 中(ちゅう) 東(とう) chuutou Middle East 東(とう) 京(きょう) 大(だい) 学(がく) toukyoudaigaku University of Tokyo 東(とう) 南(なん) アジア tounanajia Southeast Asia 東(とう) 海(かい) toukai Tokai region 東(とう) 西(ざい) touzai east and west

Jukujikun Jukujikun Jukujikun (熟字訓) — special readings where the pronunciation applies to the whole compound word rather than individual kanji. The reading cannot be split per character.

広東(かんとん) kanton Canton

Stroke order

Stroke data from KanjiVG (CC BY-SA 3.0)

Components

Composed of

き木 tree #75

ひ日 sun #72

たば束 bundle

Used as component in (5)

れん練 practice こおる凍 frozen ちん陳 exhibit むね棟 ridgepole れん錬 tempering

Pictographic character. The sun (日) rising behind a tree (木) — the east, where the sun emerges at dawn.

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Kangxi Radical The Kangxi radicals are a set of 214 character components standardized in the 1716 Kangxi Dictionary. Every kanji is classified under one radical, used for dictionary lookup and character organization.

#75 木 tree