東

Simplified: 东

On the HSK 3 vocabulary list, at CEFR level A2.

dōng ㄉㄨㄥ

    • east
    • host (i.e. sitting on east side of guest)
    • landlord
    • surname Dong

Other words read dōng

In the same tone

  • 冬 dōng winter
  • 咚 dōng boom
  • 氡 dōng radon
  • 鶇 dōng thrush
  • 崠 dōng name of a mountain

All 8 words read dōng

dong with other tones

  • 動 dòng move
  • 洞 dòng cave
  • 懂 dǒng understand
  • 董 dǒng supervise
  • 凍 dòng freeze

All 22 words read dong in any tone

How 東 is written

    部首 radical
    木
    笔画 strokes
    8, with 4 after the 部首
    结构 structure
    镶嵌结构
    偏旁 parts
    木日

    Easy to confuse with 東

    Words with 東

    Starting with 東

    All 200 words starting with 東

    Ending with 東

    • 毛澤東 máozédōng Mao Zedong (1893–1976), leader of the Chinese Communist Party 1935–1976
    • 股東 gǔdōng shareholder
    • 中東 zhōngdōng Middle East
    • 遼東 liáodōng Liaodong peninsula between Bohai 渤海 and Yellow sea
    • 以東 yǐdōng the east of (suffix)

    All 33 words ending with 東

    Containing 東

    • 毛澤東思想 máozédōngsīxiǎng Mao Zedong Thought
    • 廣東省 guǎngdōngshěng Guangdong Province, capital Guangzhou 广州市 guǎngzhōushì
    • 山東省 shāndōngshěng Shandong Province, capital Jinan 济南市 jǐnánshì
    • 巴東縣 bādōngxiàn Badong, a county in Enshi Tujia and Miao Autonomous Prefecture 恩施土家族苗族自治州 ēnshītǔjiāzúmiáozúzìzhìzhōu, Hubei
    • 關東軍 guāndōngjūn Japanese Kwantung army (or Kantō army), notorious for numerous atrocities in China during WWII

    All 107 words containing 東

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