東 — Chinese character
東
dōng
east, eastern, eastward
- Pinyin
- dōng
- Radical
- 75 ⽊ (Tree)
- Strokes
- 8
- Components
- 木 日
- Formation
- ideographic — The sun 日 rising behind a tree 木; compare 西
- Simplified
- 东
- Japanese
- 東 as a kanji
東 in the Chinese classics
Occurrences: Analects 4 · I Ching 2 · Mencius 20 · Zhuangzi 35
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