どう
Meanings
Noun
Abbreviation
1. road; path; street; route
2. way; set of practices; rules for conducting oneself
3. Buddhist teachings
4. Taoism
5. modern administrative region of Japan (Hokkaido)
6. historical administrative region of Japan (Tokaido, Tosando, etc.)
7. province (Tang-era administrative region of China)
8. province (modern administrative region of Korea)
Kanji used
roadway
Pitch accent
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Used in vocabulary (215 in total)
tool; implement; means; furniture
chivalry; samurai code
heresy; evil ways; sorcery; black magic; netherworld; world outside the six realms where evil spirits roam